42 NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. 
ally, like most of the students of the Old Country. All at 
once he stopped, bent down to the ground and picked up 
one of these little Cetonias, and, holding it up in his hand, 
he exclaimed in ecstasy, as if addressing the dearest object 
of his heart : 
“Der erste Tag im Monat May 
Ist mir der gliicklichste von allen, 
Dich sah ich, und gestand dir frei 
Am ersten Tag im Monat May, 
Dass dir mein Herz gewogen sei. 
Hat mein Gestindniss dir gefallen, 
So ist der erste Tag im Monat May, 
Fiir mich der gliicklichste von allen.” 
Which, translated, reads: ‘‘ The first day of the month of 
May is the happiest day of all to me. ’Twas on that day 
I first beheld thee and my heart confessed me thine. If my 
confession pleases thee, then ever will the first day of the 
month of May be the happiest of all the days to me.” 
This little insect is about half an inch long, and feeds 
upon the pollen of the stamens of flowers—it sucks also 
the sap of trees, principally that of willows, and deposits its 
eggs at the side of roads, or in places where garden weeds 
are heaped up, and in decayed wood. Its larvae feed on 
different kinds of roots. Reasoning from analogy with the 
nature of other species of Cetonia, I should conclude that 
the larvz of this Beetle continue in that condition upward 
of three years before they become perfect 
Mier ||| Beetles: 
The Fox-ire Creronra (Amphicoma vul- 
pina), Fig. 9, is also a native of North 
America. It is of about the same size as 
* the Indian Cetonia, but more slender, and 
covered all over with long reddish hair, re- 
f* sembling a fox. 
Fox-like Cetonia. | Another insect belonging to the family 

