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yellow, in the earth, or on plants. They are fixed by means 

 of a viscous matter which invests them. 



The larva very much resembles the female, but it is black, 

 with a reddish spot on the posterior angles of the rings. Its 

 antennae and feet are short. It walks very slowly, can elon- 

 gate, shorten, or curve underneath its body. It is probably 

 carnivorous. 



L. Italica, Lin. Oliv. Col. II. 28, 11, 12, named by the 

 inhabitants Lucciola. The corslet not covering the entire 

 head, transverse, reddish, as well as the scutel, the breast, 

 and a part of the feet ; the head, cases and abdomen are 

 black. The last two rings of the body are yellowish. The 

 two sexes are winged. (^See Fabricius and Olivier, Col. II. 

 No. 28.) 



In our second division of Lampyrides the antennae are 

 remarkably separated one from the other at their origin. 

 The head is neither prolonged nor contracted anteriorly in 

 the form of a muzzle, and the eyes are of the usual size in 

 the two sexes. 



DuiLus, Oliv. PtllinKs, Geoff. Fab. 



The males are winged, and the internal side of their an- 

 tennjE beginning at the fourth articulation, is prolonged like 

 the tooth of a comb. Those of the female are shorter, a 

 little perfoliated, and slightly serrated. In both sexes the 

 maxillary palpi are thicker towards the end, and terminate in 

 a point. The internal side of the mandibles presents a 

 tooth. 



The female of the species which serves as a type to the 

 genus, and the male of which is very common, had been 

 unknown until these later times, as well as the metamorphoses 

 of the two sexes. The observations made at Geneva, by 

 M. le Comte Mielzinsky, on the larva of this insect, and on 

 the female, in a perfect state, excited the attention of two 



