LANTERN FLY. 
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is, as it were, inflated to a large disproportioned 
size, and appears more like an appendage, than a 
natural portion of the animal’s body ; it is in this 
part, as we have already observed, that the phos- 
phorus is contained, and from hence those lumi- 
nous flashes are emitted which have contributed to 
make the insect so justly celebrated. 
