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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 trailing 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 creviee 
