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Lampyris

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Lam`py´ris
n.1.(Zool.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
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All the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis.
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