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A56 NATURAL HISTORY. 
GENUS XIX. > ety 
LAMPYRIS. 
CHARACTER. 
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‘Vuese infe&ts are chiefly diftinguifhed by their 
emitting a light in the dark; and are, therefore, 
called fire flies. The females are apterous, or with- 
gut wings. 
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ZAMPYRIS NOCTILUCA-—GLOW- 
WORM. — 
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( CONTRARY to. the general order of nature, the 
‘male of this infect is lefs than the female. But : 
greatelt ditterence. between the fexes is,. the male be- 
ing covered with brown elytra, fhagreened and mark-_ 
ed with two lines longitudinally. The two laft.rings 
of the abdomen are not fo bright as thofe of the Te- 
. male, but they have four luminous points. 
. The glowworin, which is frequently feen in. woods 
and meadows at night in Juné, is. the female. “Dhe 
fhining light it emits dire¢ts the male to his tend 
parther, which, not being able to fly, ts Se ag 
wonderfully provided by providence witha f ‘pof- 
felling ray, in the fun’s abfence, to fhew its mate the 
Spot where it is anxioufly waiting its company. “Thus 
