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lantern fly

noun

any of various tropical insects of the homopterous family Fulgoridae, many species of which have a snoutlike process formerly thought to emit light

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This story of the Lantern-fly being luminous is the more remarkable since the veracity of its author is unimpeached.

It is called the lantern-fly in English, and lives in South America.

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