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remained for a little while quite immoveable, as if 

 stunned or frightened, but began soon to crawl 

 very slowly and steadily. I then caught it, and, 

 from the remembrance I had of the Linnaean 

 species, I directly tooic it for a non-descript of this 

 genus. Some few days after, coming into my 

 room from supper, with a light in my hand, and 

 having put it upon the table, there instantly fell 

 another down from the ceiling. The third I was 

 favoured with by the then Governor, Mr. Dawes, 

 who informed me that it had dropped down before 

 him on the table, just when he had entered his 

 room, and was goiiit; to write. The other three, 

 which I afterwards collected, were also got upon 

 similar occasions, and from thence I thought I had 

 some reason to conclude that it is a nocturnal 

 animal, that it becomes benumbed by candle- 

 light, that it lives in wood, and prefers new-built 

 houses, &c. After the end of February I never 

 saw any more. The last \\hichj caught I put 

 into a box, and left confined there for a day or 

 two. One evening, going to look at it, and 

 happening to stand between the light and the 

 box, so that my shadow fell upon the insect, I 

 observed to my great astonishment, the globes of 

 the antenna?, like two lanthorns, spreading a dim 

 phosphoric light. This singular phenomenon 

 raised my curiosity, and, after having examined it 

 several times that night, I resolved to repeat my 

 researches the following day. But the animal, 

 being exhausted, died before the morning, and 

 the light disappeared. And afterwards, not being 



