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IN reply to Prof. S. P. Thompson (p. 126), the insect called in German Johanniskäfer or Johanniswürmchen is certainly the Lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm), of which only the female, which has no wings, is luminous.
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DEL LUNGO, C. Fire-fly Light. Nature 56, 294–295 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056294c0
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