[695] Iahrgang, i. 141.
[696] 112.
[697] Walton's Hispaniola, i. 39.
[698] Tour on the Continent, 2d Edit. iii. 85.
[699] Ins. Sur. 49.—The above account of the luminous properties of Fulgora laternaria is given, because negative evidence ought not hastily to be allowed to set aside facts positively asserted by an author whose veracity is unimpeached; but it is necessary to state, that not only have several of the inhabitants of Cayenne, according to the French Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, denied that this insect shines, in which denial they are joined by M. Richard, who reared the species (Encyclopédie, art. Fulgora); but the learned and accurate Count Hoffmansegg informs us, that his insect collector Sieber, a practised entomologist of thirty years standing, and who, when in the Brazils for some years, took many specimens, affirms that he never saw a single one in the least luminous. Der Gesellschaft Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin Mag. i. 153.
[700] De Geer, iv. 63.—These insects, which were chiefly Brachyptera L., Aphodii, spiders, caterpillars, but particularly the larvæ of Telephorus fuscus, fell in such abundance that they might have been taken from the snow by handfuls.—Other showers of insects which have been recorded, as that in Hungary, 20th November 1672 (Ephem. Nat. Curios. 1673. 80.), and one mentioned in the newspapers of July 2d, 1810, to have fallen in France the January preceding, accompanied by a shower of red snow, may evidently be explained in the same manner.
[701] p. 407.
[702] Linn. Trans. iv. 261.
[703] Latr. Hist. Nat. x. 262.
[704] Rev. Dr. Sutton of Norwich.