Title: The romance of insect life
Interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in the insect world
Author: Edmund Selous
Illustrator: Carton Moore-Park
Lancelot Speed
Release date: September 8, 2023 [eBook #71593]
Language: English
Original publication: United Kingdom: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1914
Credits: Gísli Valgeirsson, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
FIRE BEETLES AS LANTERNS.
The Aztecs of Mexico were accustomed to use these insects to light them through the forests by night. Fastening them to their hands and feet, they passed flaming along. It is said that the Mexicans still use them for this purpose. The fire beetle is shown to the left of this inscription.
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