lantern-fly

In a little while night would drown all colour, and there would be no light but that of the wandering lantern-fly, always unwelcome to the belated walker in a lonely place, since, like the ignis fatuus, it is confusing to the sight and sense of direction.

Green Mansions 2004

a little while night would drown all colour, and there would be no light but that of the wandering lantern-fly, always unwelcome to the belated walker in a lonely place, since, like the ignis fatuus, it is confusing to the sight and sense of direction.

Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

a lantern: it is called the lantern-fly (Fulgora laternaria).

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847