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sect voices. To another group, known as Ful- 

 gorids, gigantic heads and streamers of wax 

 have been allotted. Those possessing the former 

 rejoice in the name of Lantern Flies, but they 

 are at present unfaithful vestal bugs, though it 

 is extremely doubtful if their wicks were ever 

 trimmed or lighted. To see a big wax bug flying 

 with traihng ribbons slowly from tree to tree in 

 the jungle is to recall the streaming trains of a 

 flock of peacocks on the wing. 



The membracids must of all deserve the name 

 of "bugges" for no elf or hobgoblin was ever 

 more bizarre. Their legs and heads and bodies 

 are small and aphid-like, but aloft there spring 

 minarets and handles and towers and thorns and 

 groups of hairy balls, out of all reason and sense. 

 Only Stegosaurus and Triceratops bear com- 

 parison. Another group of five-sided bugs are 

 the skunks and civet-cats among insects, guard- 

 ing themselves from danger by an aura of ob- 

 noxious scent. 



Not the least strange of this assemblage is the 

 author of our rainbow in the stump. My awk- 

 wardness had broken into a hollow which opened 

 to the light on the other side of the rotten bole. 

 A vine had tendriled its way into the crevice 



