Letter, 'Of the lampyris or Cicindela volans' by Benjamin Allen to Mr Smith, a bookseller at The Prince's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard, for Edmond Halley Observations are made about the female flying glowworm (lampyris or Cicindela volans) and the 'manner of the generation of eels' Allen's note to Halley says that these three observations can be added to his former observations made about the deathwatch beetle (see EL/A/46) Subject: Entomology Read to the Royal Society on 22 July 1695 3 July 1665