GLOVERSVILLE, a city of Fulton county, New York, in the foot-hills of the Adirondacks, 45m. N.W. of Albany. It is served by the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville railroad, con necting at Fonda, 7m. S., with the New York Central. The popu lation was 22,075 in 192o (82% native white) and 23,099 in 193o. The dominating industry, as the name suggests, is the making of gloves. There are many factories making silk and leather gloves and mittens, supplemented by many home-workers, as well as tanneries, leather-finishing plants and other subsidiary indus tries. The total factory output in 1927 was valued at $31,741,146. Gloversville, Johnstown and the adjacent country districts make a considerable part of all the gloves manufactured in the United States. The industry was introduced by a colony of Perthshire families who were settled in the region by Sir William Johnson about 176o. By 1809 their goods had begun to find markets be yond the neighbourhood, and by 1825 the industry was firmly established. The settlement of Gloversville began about 177o. Until 1828, when the present name was adopted, it was called Stump City. The village was incorporated in 1851, and in 1890 it became a city.
the wingless female of the beetle Lampyris noctiluca, whose power of emitting a greenish-white light has been familiar for many centuries. The luminous organs of the glow worm consist of cells similar to those of the fat-body, grouped into paired masses in the ventral region of the hinder abdominal segments. The light given out by the wingless female insect is believed to attract the flying male, whose luminous organs are rudimentary. The common glow-worm is a widespread European and Siberian insect, generally distributed in England and ranging in Scotland northwards to the Tay, but unknown in Ireland. Exotic species of Lampyris are similarly luminous, and light-giving organs are present in many genera of the family Lampyridae from various parts of the world. Frequently—as in the south European Luciola italica—both sexes are provided with wings, and both emit light. These luminous, winged Lampyrids are generally known as "fire-flies." In correspondence with their power of emitting light, the insects are nocturnal.
Elongate centipedes of the family Geophilidae, certain species of which are luminous, are sometimes mistaken for the true glow-worm.