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GLOW-WORM. 
In Italy this flying glow-worm is extremely 
plentiful, and we are informed by Dr. Smith, and 
other travellers, that is a very common practice 
for the ladies to stick them by way of ornament 
in different parts of their head-dress during the 
evening hours. 
The common or wingless Glow-Worm may be 
very successfully kejit, if properly supplied with 
moist turf, grass, moss, &c. for a considerable 
length of time, and, as soon as the evening com- 
mences, will regularly exhibit its beautiful effulg- 
ence, illuminating every object within a small 
space around it, and sometimes the light is so 
vivid as to be perceived through the box in which 
it is kept. This insect deposits its eggs, which 
are small and yellowish, on the leaves of grass, &c. 
