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H E M I P T E R A .
F U L G O R A C A N D E L A R I A .
C H I N E S E L A N T E R N - C A R R I E R .
G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E R .
The forehead elongated. Antennx below the eyes: confili o f two articulations. The beak,
or roftrum, is bent inwards under the body.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R
AND
S Y N O N Y M S .
T ra n k curved upwards towards the end. Shells green with yellow marks. Wings yeUow, black at
the tips.
F u l g o r a C a n d e l a r ia : fronte roftrata adfcendente, elytris viridibus luteo maculatis, alis flavis apice n ig r is .
Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 703. 3. Fab. Ent. Syfi. t. 4. p . 2. fp . 4.
Der Fleinerc Afiatijche oder Chinefifclte Lantemen-Trager. Roef. Inf. 2.
Gryd. 189. iah.ZO.
A d a Holm. 1746. 63. tab. 1. Jig. 5, 6.
De Geer Inf. 3. 197- 2.
Ednj. A v . tab. 120.
Sulz. Inf. tab. 10. Jig. 62.
De Gezvafende Cicade. L a Cigale armée. Stoll. Cicad.
The phenomena refulting from the properties and effeSs o f light, having engaged the attention o f the
earliell philofophers, we muft conclude, that phofphorical appearances, and thofe efpecially o f animated
bodies, could not fail to a ttra a their particular notice. Indeed it is evident, from the writings o f the accurate
obfervers of nature in remote ages, that they were acquainted with certain in fe a s that have the
property o f lliimng in the night. Thefe were known only by general terms, expreffive of that property;
yet it is probable that fome o f the Linntean lampyrides, which are abundant in the fouth o f Europe, as
well as in Afia, and fome parts o f Africa, were the firft o f the illuminated in fe a s known to them *. Some
o f the males which are furnillied with wings, and are illuminated like the females, were ftriking objeas of
natural hiftory, and could fcarcely have efcaped their notice. T h e Greeks included all fliining infea s under
the name lampyris; and the Latins called them cicindela, noailuca, lucióla, lucernata. See. W h e th er any
o f the Fulgoru, were known to the ancients is uncertain : probably they were not, the moft remarkable
fpecies being peculiar to the warmett parts o f America, Afia, once the feat o f learning, does indeed produce
a few fpecies; but we have no account o f thefe in ancient natural hiftory.
» The lampyiis of Pltny is cxprefsly the iiifeél with a fliining tail.