lampyris

On the muddy and wet gravel-walks I found the larvæ of this lampyris in great numbers: they resembled in general form the female of the English glowworm.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

On the muddy and wet gravel-walks I found the larvæ of this lampyris in great numbers: they resembled in general form the female of the English glowworm.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

That pretty sparkler of our summer evenings, so often made the ploughboy's prize, the only brilliant that glitters in the rustic's hat, the glowworm, (_lampyris noctiluca_,) is not found in such numbers with us, as in many other places, where these signal tapers glimmer upon every grassy bank; yet, in some seasons, we have a reasonable sprinkling of them.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various

[Footnote A: The American lampyris, vulgarly called the lightning-bug.]

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

On the muddy and wet gravel-walks I found the larvæ of this lampyris in great numbers: they resembled in general form the female of the English glowworm.

Chapter II 1909

I found the larvae of this lampyris in great numbers: they resembled in general form the female of the English glowworm.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

And twofold love unites the double sex. acquire wings, but not the females, as ants, coccus, lampyris, phalæna, brumata, lichanella; Botanic

Canto II 1803

In this they resemble those tribes of insects, where the males at certain seasons acquire wings, but not the females, as ants, coccus, lampyris, phalæna, brumata, lichanella; Botanic Garden, Vol. II.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766