

HEMIPTERA. 
ee 
FULGORA CANDELARIA. 
CHINESE LANTERN-CARRIER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
The forehead elongated. Antennz below the eyes: confift of two articulations. The beak, 
or roftrum, is bent inwards under the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Trunk curved upwards towards the end. Shells green with yellow marks. Wings yellow, black at 
the tips. 
Furcora Canpexaria: fronte roftrata adfcendente, elytris viridibus luteo maculatis, alis flavis apice nigris. 
Linn, Syft. Nat. 2. 703.3. Fab. Ent. Syft. t. 4. p. 2. fp. A. 
Der Fleinere Afiatifche oder Chinefifche Lanternen-Trager. Roef. Inf. 2. 
Gry//. 189. tab. 30. 
Acta Holm. 1746, 63. tab. 1. fig. 5, 6. 
De Geer Inf: 3.197. 2. 
Edw. Av. tab, 120. 
Sulz. Inf. tab. 10. fiz. 62. 
De Gewapende Cicade. La Cigale armée. Stoll. Cicad. 
The phenomene refulting from the properties and effects of light, having engaged the attention of the 
earlieft philofophers, we muft conclude, that phofphorical appearances, and thofe efpecially of animated 
bodies, could not fail to attra&t their particular notice. Indeed it is evident, from the writings of the ac- 
curate obfervers of nature in remote ages, that they were acquainted with certain infects that have the 
property of fhining in the night. Thefe were known only by general terms, expreflive of that property; 
yet it is probable that fome of the Linnzan lampyrides, which are abundant in the fouth of Europe, as 
well as in Afia, and fome parts of Africa, were the firft of the illuminated infects known tothem*. Some 
of the males which are furnifhed with wings, and are illuminated like the females, were ftriking objects of 
natural hiftory, and could fcarcely have efcaped their notice. The Greeks included all fhining infects under 
the name lampyris; and the Latins called them cicindela, noétiluca, luciola, lucernata, &c, Whether any 
of the Fu/gore were known to the ancients is uncertain: probably they were not, the moft remarkable 
fpecies being peculiar to the warmett parts of America. Afia, once the feat of learning, does indeed pro- 
duce a few {pecies; but we have no account of thefe in ancient natural hiftory. 
* The lampyris of Pliny is exprefsly the infeét with a fhining tail. 

