
432 THE WEST INDIAN FIRE BEETLE. 


It is to be hoped that, with the modern facilities for short 
passages from Cuba, we shall every year be able to see, even 
in our frigid climate, a large number of these distinguished 
strangers. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. 





—We figure several examples of our native fire-flies, with 41 
wie, 3) of an adult female glowworm from Zanzibar, which closely resem- — 

bles the English glowworm (Lampyris). Fig. 1 is, very Lehi thean = 
of a genus allied to Photuris, of which P. Pensylvanica (Fig. 2 is the 
a side of the 
in an under a stone in damp ground, ving 
ed as iP the act of walking, the feet on one side of the body mo | 
connect with those on the other. This is the way insects red. 
walk. It was not luminous on the evening of the day it w as discove 
But a truly luminous larva (Fig. 4) has been p E to us by * ‘a 
Sanborn; it was found at Roxbury, Mass. We have been as yet oa 
refer it to its ‘Proper genus a and species. Fig. 5 pictures a gin sin 
It was find by Rev. E. C. Bolles, at Westbrook, Maine, un 
and it, probably, like other larvæ of fire-flies, feeds on ia si 
The body of this remarkable insect is very flat, so that it looks aS eee 
could be no room for the viscera. On opening the box, it ere e dead 
tionary for so long a N that we thought we h d before US it was 
and dried remains of an insect, which puzzled us xceeding To talk 
but more, when it slowly moved before our astonished vision. Aa pave 
an insect winking its eye is a heresy, but we imagine th 
been an involuntary twinkle in its mind’s eye at our innoe 
its movements. Here, indeed, was one of those forms so often 
