152 -PHOSPHORIC INSECTS. 
speaks of as bemg luminous at the abdomen, is 
no other than Lampyris italica, of which I have 
spoken above, 
One of the Longicorn beetles, named by Che- 
vrolat Dadoychus flavocinctus, has the third and 
fourth segments of the abdomen of the same yel- 
low colour and appearance as the luminous seg- 
ments of the Lampyride, and we know that a 
considerable number of the Brazilian Helopide 
present a similar peculiarity, whence some ento- 
mologists are inclined to infer that these imsects 
are also luminous. 
In the family of Hemiptera we have the genus 
Fulgora, which includes several species said to be 
highly phosphorescent. ‘Their he¢ht is so brilhant 
that the authors who speak of it have called these 
insects Lantern-flies. 
Fig. 28. 
Fulgora laternaria and I’. candelaria (fig. 28) 
are the two species best known, These, like all 
the msects of this genus, have a very singular ap- 
