68 ORDER I. Lampyris. 



Genus XIX". Lampyris. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. page 643. 

 The antennae of the Lampyris are filiform. 



The elytra are weak and flexible. 



The thorax is flat, and of a femiorbicular 

 form, furrounding and concealing the head. 



The fegments of the abdomen termi- 

 nate on each fide mpapillce y or little appen- 

 dices, which turn, or are bent upwards to- 

 wards the elytra, and in part cover one ano- 

 ther. 



The females, in general, want wings. 



Scopoli, who has only defcribed two fpecies 

 of this genus, has arranged them with the Caf- 

 fida of Linnseus, giving to that genus the fimple 

 characleriftic of the head being concealed under 

 the thorax. That character the Lampyris has in 

 common with the Caflida, from which, howe- 

 ver it differs in the length and flatnefs of the bo- 

 dy, in the fhape of the antennae, which in the 

 CafTidagrow thicker towards their extremity, and 

 in the papillce, or folds of the abdomen, which 



are 



