114 LANTERN-FLIES, ETC. 
a long time. Adult insects and egg-masses, natural size and en- 
larged, are shown in Fig. 106. 
A similar species, the FE. curvata, also brownish, but un- 
spotted, has even a longer horn, and when the wings are spread 
we have the minute picture of a flying goose. 
Other members, equally peculiar in shape, abound every- 
where in the wooded portions of our state, but are of no economic 
importance. Prof. Comstock, in speaking of such insects, writes 
that if a young entomologist wishes to laugh, let him look at 
the face of a tree-hopper through a lens; their eyes always have 
a keen droll look, and the line that separates the head from the 
prothorax gives them the appearance of wearing glasses. In 
some cases the prothorax is elevated above the head, so that it 
looks like a peaked night-cap; in others it is shaped like a Tam- 
O-Shanter; and sometimes it has horns, one on each side. He 
gives a drawing of four such insects sitting side by side upon 
a blade of grass. They also forcibly remind us of a party of 
little Brownies, dressed in queer costumes, and frolicking in some 
leafy bower. 
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Fic. 106.—Enchenopa binotata Say. Showing the adult, enlarged; egg-mass nat. 
size; and one egg-mass, greatly enlarged. After Lintner. 
FAMILY FULGORIDAE. 
(Lantern-flies, etc.). 
Nearly every book on Natural History describes the great 
Lantern Fly of Brazil, or the Candle-fly of China, described by 
Linnaeus from the supposed fact that the species were luminous. 
