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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Mansions] Reference

A lantern: it is called the lantern-fly (Fulgora laternaria).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference