COLEOPTtrUA. — LAMPYRID/T,. 



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elongate and depressed, of a soft consistence {fig. 26. l. Lampyris noc- 

 tiluca, the glowworm $ \fig.26. 2. ditto female); the head small, and con- 

 cealed by the front of the thorax, with the eyes of the males very large 

 (fig. 26. 3.), In some species the head is produced into a rostrum 

 (fig. 27. 7.); the thorax is semicircular, or quadrate, forming a flattened 

 hood over the head ; the antennae are filiform, and closely approximated 

 at the base, and often pectinated or serrated, with compressed joints ; 

 the penultimate joint of the tarsi is bilobed (fig. 26. 6. J ) ; the parts of 

 the mouth are small ; the palpi thickened at the tips (fig. 26. 4. max- 

 illa, 5. labium S ) ; the mandibles small, acute, and curved. In some 

 species the females are apterous (fig. 26. 2.), and in others furnished 

 only with short elytra. They are voracious in their habits ; preying, 

 m the larva state, upon the bodies of snails, and not, as asserted by 

 some authors, upon plants. The species are, for the most part, ex- 



Griffith. Anim. Kingdom, Insects. 



Thunherg. Dissert. Entomol. Upsal, 1784. — Ditto, in Act. Soc. Koy. Upsal, vol. ix. 



Kirby. Century. Linn. Trans, vol. xii. 



Gutrin. Icon. R. An. Insects. — Ditto, Magasinde Zool. — And ditto, Voyage dc 



la Coquille. 

 Schonherr. Syn. Ins. vol. iii. App. 

 Germar. Mag. der Entomol. and Insect. Spec. Nov. 

 Perty. Delect. An. Art. Brasilia;. 

 Lamarck, Journ. d'Hist. Nat. vol. i. 



Wulfen. Description of Insects, Cape of Good Hope, 'Ito. 

 Say. American Entomology, vol. iii. 8vo. 

 Newman, in Entom. I\Iag. No. 24. 

 JVestwood, in Zool. Joiivn. No. 17. (on Amydetes. ) 



Hope, in Gray's Zool. :Misc. No. i. — Ditto in Royle's Himalaya (G. Anisotcliis). 

 MUller, in Illiger, Mag. vol. iv. (Nat. Hist. L. hemiptcra.)- 



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