INSECTA—GLOW WORM...BEETLE. 823 
trunk, which it buries in the skin, and through which it sucks the blood in 
large quantities. The body appears to be all over curiously adorned with a 
suit of palished sable armor, neatly joined, and beset with multitudes of 
snarp pins, almost like the quills of a porcupine. It has six legs, the joints 
of which are so adapted, that it can, as it were, fold them up one within an- 
other ; and when it leaps, they all spring out at once, whereby its whole 
strength is exerted, and the body raised above two hundred times its own 
diameter. 
THE GLOW WORM! 
No two insects can differ more than the male and the female of this 
species from each other. The male is in every respect a beetle, having 
cases to its wings, and rising in the air at pleasure; the female, on the con- 
trary, has none, but is entirely a creeping insect, and is obliged to wait the 
approaches of her capricious companion. The body of the female has eleven 
joints, with a shield breast-plate, the shape of which is oval; the head is 
‘placed over this, and is very small, and the three last joints of her body are 
of a yellowish color; but what distinguishes it from all other animals, is 
the shining light which it emits by night, and which is supposed by some 
philosophers to be an emanation which she sends forth to allure the male to 
her company. 
THE BEETLE. 
Or the beetle there are various kinds; all, however, concurring in one 
common formation of having cases to their wings, which are the more 
1 Lampyris noctiluca, Lin. 
2 The order Coleoptera has four wings, of which the two anne ones are in the form ot 
cases; mandibles and jaws for mastication; under wings folded across ; elytra crustacer 
vus ard the suture straight. 
