INSECTS AND OTHER SMALL DEER. 



to see it remain upon the leaf, where I had placed 

 it, for several minutes, during which our photographer 

 made the study on the opposite page. 



One evening, whilst out after pictures of moths, 

 we fell in with a glow-worm upon a hedge-bank, 

 and my brother essayed to photograph it by its 

 own phosphorescent light, but failed to accomplish 

 this novel end on account of his inability to focus, 

 and from the insect's movements. The light which 

 it gave off the nether side of its hind-quarters, 

 however, was so bright that I could distinctly see 

 it shining across the legs of our tripod three feet 

 away. It evidently serves to attract the males of 

 the species, for we saw four close round the female 

 figured below. 



Whilst engaged in taking 

 photographs with a flash-lamp 

 we have on several occasions 

 unwittingly convinced country 

 people who have seen our 

 momentary illuminations that 

 Nature was indulging in a 

 display of summer lightning. 



One night an uncommonly 

 inquisitive boy, in front of 

 whose cottage we were photo- 

 graphing, would persist in a 



very close examination of the different items of 

 our plant, and as in doing so he kicked the leg 

 of the tripod and nearly knocked the camera over 



GLOW-WOKM. 



