176 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



ability to move through space. But this point we 

 will not discuss because the writer of Bugs, But- 

 terflies and Beetles is more familiar with boys than 

 he is with angels, and, fortunately for school- 

 teachers, policemen and parents, boys do not have 

 wings. 



The peculiarity of the angel butterflies seems 

 to be that when ISIother Nature was using her 

 shears to cut out their wings, she made many 

 experiments and gave these butterflies all sorts of 

 fancy notches, scallops and curves on the edges of 

 their wings. The scientists would say that Mother 

 Nature gave them " deeply incised wings." 



The angel-wings are also painted with rich 

 reds and browns and usually they have the under 

 side of their hind-wings decorated with silver and 

 gold spangles. It may be, in order to help you 

 boys remember how to indicate the stops and pauses 

 when writing your notes, that these butterflies often 

 have their wings ornamented with punctuation 

 marks. One of them has a golden semi-colon and 

 one angel-wing is called the question-mark but- 

 terfly or, to state it more accurately, the interroga- 

 tion butterfly. It is a rich, reddish-brown color, 

 with fancy notched and tailed edges to its wings, 



