2^4 Mr. Ray to Dr. Robinfon. 



they are every Where to be found, being nothing die 

 but a kind of long-bodied Beetle, though they fhine 

 not in this Coiitttrey. They anfWer exa&ly to Al- 

 drovand's Defcription of the Cicindeta volans of Italy. 

 The reafon why I mention this, is becaufe this Gen- 

 tleman meeting with this Beetle, and finding by ftrift 

 Obfervatiod that the Body of it anfwer'd e£4£fcly in 

 Figure to that of creeping Glow-worm , fufpected 

 it to be the Male Glow-worm ; and having fome creep* 

 ing Glow-wortns by him, put this Animal into a Box 

 With one of them, which after fome fhort time cou- 

 pled with it : But becaufe the Box whef einto they 

 were put was fmall and fhut, to confirm the Experi- 

 ment, he put a creeping Glow-worm into an opeil 

 Box, and a flying one to her, which fluttering with 

 his Wings, did prefently, in his fight, march to the 

 creeping one , and couple with her. How this can 

 accord with what Mr. Waller delivers of the winged 

 CicindeU^ that they are both Male and Female, and 

 couple together, 1 fee not, unlefs we fay that there 

 are two forts of flying Glow-worms j the one fort 

 having both Sexes flying, and the other being the 

 - Male of the creeping. For Dr. -Plofs Salvo will not 

 here ferve the turn, viz. that the Animal in which 

 Vintimiglia made the firft Experiment, might be pru- 

 rient with Lull , and being fhut up in a Glafs with 

 creeping Glow-worms, might couple with them, as 

 Horfes do with Ihe-Afies. For in our Cafe the flying 

 Glow-worm was not pamper'd, as wild Creatures fel- 

 dom are, nor with-held from thofe of his own Kind 

 for fome time, and was at his free liberty in the Box 

 to take his flight away. 



Mr. 



