250 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



and this you can do by trading \v4th boys who live 

 in other sections ; you will find that the beetles differ 

 in their markings and some other respects, as well as 

 in their actions. In Kentucky I have seen the little 

 girls, after dark, wearing organdie, tarlatan and 

 lawn dresses between which and their skirts they 

 had inserted a number of lightning bugs, producing 

 a very pretty effect as the insects flashed their 

 signals. I may be wrong with regard to the name 

 of the cloth the girls wore — I am not an expert in 

 dry-goods — but it was a thin, flimsy material and 

 showed the light emitted by the insects almost as 

 plainly as if there were no cover over them. The 

 lightning bug fm-nishes safe and sane Fourth of 

 July fireworks. 



