HEMIPTERA. 



nasuta are two other abundant species in China, and no doubt there are many other 

 common kinds in that country we are at present unacquainted with. The locust is only 

 detrimental when in immense numbers ; for in China, as in other eastern countries, they 

 are considered as an article of food, and regularly exposed for sale in the public 

 markets.* 



Order. HEMIPTERA. Linnceus, Latreille. 



FULGORA CANDELARIA. 



Plate 14. 



Sub-Ordek. Ho.mopteua, Latreille. 

 Family. Fulgouid^. 



Genus. Fui.goka, Linnaus. 



Ch. Sp. F. tronte rostrata, adscendente ; elytris viridibus luteo-maculatis ; alls flavis apice 



nigris. Expans. alar. 3 unc. 

 F. witli the forehead produced into an ascending rostrum; elytra green, spotted 



with luteous; wings yeliow bufF, with the tips black. Expanse of the wings 



3 inches. 

 Syx. Fulgora candelaria, ijnn. 5!/4-f. A'a^ 2. 703. Roesel Ins. 2. \^'t). t.'lQ. Sulzer 



Ins. t. 10./. 62. Fab. Ent. Syst. 4. p. 2. Sijst. Rh. p. 2. De Geer Ins. 



3.197.2. Act.Holm.\im.t.\.f.5.6. 



The phenomena resulting from the properties and effects of light having engaged tlie 

 attention of the earliest philosophers, we must conclude that phosphorical appearances, 

 and those especially of animated bodies, could not fail to attract their particular notice. 

 Indeed it is evident from the writings of the accurate observers of nature in remote ages, 

 that they were accjuainted with certain insects that have the property of shining in the 

 night. These were known only by general terms, expressive of that property ; yet it is 

 probable that some of the Linnaean Lampyrides, which are abundant in the south of 

 Europe, as well as in Asia and some parts of Africa, were the first of the illuminated 



* Sir G. Staunton hkewise speaks of " a large species of Gryllus " that is kept in cages for amusement in 

 China, and was exposed for sale with other insects in the shops of Hai-ten. Neither the species of this, or the 

 locusts noticed in the preceding note, are mentioned. (This remark evidently applies to the Mantidse men- 

 tioned in the note to Enipusa flabellicornis.) 



