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Identifier: zoologicallectur21809shaw (find matches)
Title: Zoological lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1806 and 1807
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916, former owner. DSI Royal Institution of Great Britain
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London : Printed for George Kearsley, by Thomas Davison
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^ It is distinguished by thepeculiar structure of the head, which in most spe-cies, and more especially in the great or chiefkind, is of a large, lengthened, and inflated form,as if swelled out with air; and the mouth consistsof a long, slender tube, lying beneath the breast.The F. Lanternaria or South-American LanternV\y is certainly one of the most curious, and evenone of the most beautiful of insects. It is a na-tive of many parts of South-America, and is com-mon in Stmnam, where it was observed in par- ZFlIil^03iA< m6
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F. Ij anternaria LECTURE IX. 105 ticular by the celebrated Madam Merian, and isfigured in her most elegant work on the Surinaminsects, where she gives an entertaining accountof the surprize into which she and her domesticswere thrown on first observing these insects toshine by night, like so many flames of fire in theroom into which they had been introduced. Theinsect is of the size represented in the figures weare now viewing. Irs colours, when living, con-sist of a beautiful variegation of brown, green,and red, on a yellowish ground, and the underwings are decorated by a large eye-shaped spot oneach. The light afforded by the fire or Lantern-Fly proceeds entirely from the head, and is said tobe sufficient to enable a person to read the small-est print by; as well as to travel with by niglitin the manner of a torch, if tied to the end of astick. Madam Merian was somewhat deceivedas to the larva or first stage of this insect, whichshe confounds with a species of Cicada, and thisis one

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