CHINESE LANTHORN-FLY. 
The beautiful figure annexed, is an exact 
copy from nature of the Chinese Lanthorn- 
Fly, drawn by the celebrated Edwards. It 
appears to be the Chinese Lanternarla, of 
Linnaeus ; though, in the Linnssan List of 
Edwards's figures, it is omitted to be named 
by the great Swedish naturalist. 
Edwards simply informs us, that he takes it 
to be a kind of Fire-Fly, the part on it's head 
being the lanthorn — that the wings are all flat ; 
and the upper ones hard and smooth, like 
those of the Beetle or Scarabaeus kind, of 
v/hich he considers it as a species — that the 
body, and lower wings, are orange-coloured ; 
except the tips of the wings, which have a 
broad border of black— that the upper wings 
are green ; variegated with spotted and yellow, 
the yellow spots and marks having sm.aller 
spots within them of an orange-colour — that 
the under side is coloured and spotted in the 
same manner as the upper, but not so bright — 
and, 
