from Peru". He r account has, however, been generally believed, fince the milfionaries® in countries
which produce thofe infefts have confirmed her account. I t is admitted, that the Chinefe Eulgora has an
illuminated appearance in the night. “ The foreheads o f many Fulgoræ (efpecially thofe found in China)
emit a lively fliining light in thc night time, which, according to fome authors, is fufficient to read by.”—
"Yeats P.
H E M I P T E R A .
rea. ami fome others. It lias not been determined whether any o f the European Futeorie lltine in the
night time. The genus is very limited, including the difcoverie, o f modern naluraliffi. Fabricius de
fcribcs only twenty-five fpecies; o f thefe, feven are European, and eighteen extra-European. Two fpecies
are found in England.
The light o f the Fnlgorae is generally imagined to Kfue from the trunk, or elongated projcftion of the
forehead ; bnt Eoefel offers a conjefture on the light o f the Fulgora Lanternaria, which, on further invef-
tigation, may enable naturalifts to determine whether the light is entirely produced by an innate property
o f the trunk, or receives additional fplendour from fome external caufe. He notices a white farinaceous
fubftance on feveral parts o f the wings and body, as well as the trnok, which, he obferves, looks like the
decayed wood which fliines at night. We mention this conjeSure o f Roefel, thongh the fame occurred to
us before we perufed his obfervations. We have invariably found a ftmilar white powder on other infefts
o f this genus, but ufually upon the trunk only. The remarks of Roefel were iieceffarily very limited, two
fpecies o f the Fulgoræ only being then known. We poffefs twelve diftinft fpecies. and have made diffeftions
and obfervations on feveral others ; from all which we are inclined to imagine, that the white powder has
a phofphoric appearance in the living infeft, and increafes the light, when the end o f the trunk is illu-
minated.
One o f the Fulgoræ o f confiderable magnitude, from the interior o f India, enabled us to make many
obfervations. The trunk is o f the fame form as that o f the Falgara Candelaria. The colour is a dark
but beautiful purple : the apex fcarlet. o f a perfcftly pellucid appearance, and flijl retains a reddilli
glare. The fpots o f white, fprinkled on the purple colour of the trniik, exhibit alfo a Iligbt appearance
o f phofphoric matter. On the trunk o f the Fulgora Candelaria thefe white fpots are very confpi-
cuous.
Chryfanihemum Indicum.— In d ia n C h ry fan lh em w a .
This is a very la td y inlrodncod fpecies in England. I, is mentioned by Sir G. Srann.on among the p lan ,,
eollefted m the provrnees a t S,.an-tang and Kdang-nan. Thunherg deferibes it as a native of j!p a n in the
a ^ 7 h 7 ' b t m r la r in n , A.nUnenfe Is
nother. We ob erve a great d.ftimilarity between the figures o f this plan, in different works. T h at
figured the Herl. Arni. has very fmall flowers, fcarcely broader tl.an our large daify , : the leaves in clufters,
feme very large, and otbers fma.L In the Hon. M alal. the flowers are twice the fize o f the former
and the leaves are placed much afunder. The flowers o f our fpecimen are confiderably larger than either
thele; yet not o f the magmtude reprefented in the plate of Mr. Curtiss Botanical Magazine.
This Chryfanthemum is no. peculiar to China, though it has been long cultivated in that country. I t ’
giows tpontaneonfly rn fome pa r,, of Ja p a n ; and ftom the name it beats in the Arabic, Perfic and oth
languages, is probably known in moft parts o f Afia. ’
V Chryfanthnnum Leuc.inthemum.
Though the genetic name Fulgora feems to imply fome effulgent property in the infefts that compofe
the genus, it is uncertain whether all poffefs that property. They are indeed furniihed with a trunk,
but it is fmaller in proportion, in feveral fpecies, than in F, Lanternaria, Candelaria, Flaminea, Phofphon
Cucujus Peruvianus.
“ That which, befide die figure of the head, is moil wonderful in this infeil, is the fliining property of the fame part, whereby it looks
in the night like a lantern, fo that, two or three of thefe faftened to a ftlck, or othcrwifc conveniently difpofed of, will give fufficient light
to thofe who travel or walk in the nighf” Grtvj. Muftum Regalh Socielalis, p . 158.
■’ Le ver-iuifant. Ceux que nous voyons à la campagne dans les nuits d’étc ne jettent qiTune foible lueur : mais ils y en a dans les Indes
modernes qui répandent un écUt très-vif. Ce font, pour ainfi dire, des phofphorcs animez. “ Les Indiens, dit le favant auteur de la
Théologie des infcéles, “ ne fe fervoient autrefois dans leurs raaifons, et dehors d’aucune autre lumière. Lorfqu’ils marchent de nuit, ils en attachent
deux aux gros doigts du pied, et en portent un à la main. Ces infeéles répandent une fi grande clairté, que par leur moyen on peut
lire, écrire, et faire dans une chambre toutes les autres chofes néceflaires.” Lfjfer L iv . z . c. 3. rem. 8 . Le trait rapporté par Je P. b»
T er t r e dans fon Sjftoire des Antilles, auroit bien dû être cité il dit avoir lu fon brcviarc à la clarté d’un de ces vcrs-luifans.
P Ycats. loftitutions of Entomology.