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FULGO, in _Censraphy a river of Ba which, 
runs into the Mahany; 10 mil a of Bah 
‘UL CORA, in Entomology, a ioters in 
the Linnean fyftem, Ryngota of ‘Fabricius, ne Ong 
of Vamarck, and later French writers. 
This genus is characterifed by opi bi head hollow, 
inflated, and extended forward; the antenne fhort, feated 
beneath the eyes, and confifting of two i the outer one 
alee and globular ; we elongated, infle@ted, and contain- 
ing four joints; and the legs formed for leaping. 
The fulgora feem to have entirely efcaped the a‘tention 
of European naturalifts till within the fpace of the laft cen- 
tury, when an interefting account, accompanied harms nie 
Co) 
of the fpecies piglets oat in the co ly volum 
Madame Mera “¢ Infe€tor urinamenfium ;"’ and ab 1 
the fame period a cess of another example of the 
{pecies — ye by Dr. Grew of London, in his work en- 
titled «« Mufeum Regalis Societatis.’’ The ‘hiftory of ia 
infect, as related by negara is a aes eed furprifing, and w 
much di {credited 1 in the ances notwithitanding at 
erroborated b 
t c 
ai secre) of Dr. Grew, fo far as refpected ie lu- 
inous property of that pee eee creature, her Asie | 
is completely confirmed by his authority. The 
which we chiefly allude is to the eer effed : 
ndians brought me a 
bei 
nue "tightened I pita out of bed and ordered a light, 
ot knowing whence the noife proceeded. We foon per- 
pce that it originated in the box, which we opened with 
fome inquietude, “but were ftill more alarmed, after eas 
it and letting it fall on the ground, for a flame appe 
iffue from it which feemed to receive saditon 
i hen 
fom overe 
iplendou “of thefe “ittle animals,’’ ‘ Differt. de Generatione 
t Metamorphibus, &c.’’ “Thhefe remarks are fanCtioned by 
Grew, when he obferves that the circumftance “ which be- 
fide the figure of the head is moft wonderful in this infect 
(Cucujus Peruvianus) is the fhining property of a = 
part, whereby it looks at night like a lantern, fo th 
or three of thefe fattened to a ftick, or otherwife one 
ly oe ae of, will give fufficient light to thofe who walk 
or trave n the n ight. 
“Rastons fimilae to the above are given by the miffionaries 
who traverfed South America; nor does the fact appear to 
be contefted except by Renard, who, in contradiction to 
thofe writers, affures us that this extraordinaty infet does 
s committed a 
phoric light in this individual {pecies of fulgora, as récorde 
in her publication, we can reafonably entertain had 
flightef doubt. It is even poffible that obferver of nature 
allumed Nose 
at the period of their amours, ether however he 2 
emitted by this fpecies of fora 1 he permanent or not, i! 
is fufficiently evident on the teftimony of thofe who hav 
witneffed its “fhining properties, that the hght produced is 
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1 semarly powerful and clear. Pere du Tertre declares { in 
e Fift des Antilles’ that he could diftin@ly his 
Leffler, in his 
ayers by the light of orie of them 
pr 
oP Theologie des Infeétes,’’ affirms that the Tada, is 
houfes, and require no other light in the 
acne a 3 an sore be this ort being apes fo far to 
€ an apart of mm enable its 
ane ean to i ea ‘houlhold fot may be ne- 
ceflar 
hem in their 
The fulgora lanternaria was the only {pecimen of this fin- 
ed tribe of infects cosy till about the _— of the 
eighteenth century, w. at curious and very abundant 
a - Chinefe eater (F. Candelaria) was brought 
rope. n account o oelel, 
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ina ee edition pee are incorporated with his cicade, 
and laftly they were allowed to conititute a ‘diftine genus 
under the name which they retain at prefent. 
The details afforded i in the works of the shevecmentioned 
pacha refpecting the luminous properties of thefe infects, 
awakened confiderable attention among naturalifts, as we 
umur, and o 
this time . does not app re than ten fpecics 
re known to Linnzus, and as ee all that were 
defcribed by De egeer, Seba, and others of his 
but the total amount of thofe inferted j in the works o "a- 
Stoll, Donovan, and others, have increafed 
ur from fome external caufe. 
this genus, W h 
| 7 a pages a i our ean ne ue prefence’ 
o increafe, t h it does tely excite, 
abfo 
that vd glow of ig ack thefe infebes + unguliony 
ay 
éxamine obfervation zie by Reaumur, as 
a pee French aukce ( Latreil] 2 has er remarked, proves 
ing, aufe it is very likely that in the living infect 
os cavity is is filled with fivia dnatter, which dries or evapo- 
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