ORDER I.—BEETLES. F5}3) 
The Parintep Capricorn (Clytus pictus).—This beautiful 
insect is one of our autumnal visitors, 
and one of the countless host of evi- 
dences that the rolling year is full, only 
as every season brings its own peculiar 
charms. Spring is the time of youth, 
of buds, and of flowers; autumn the 
harvest of maturity, of blossoms, and 
of fruit. If the merry month of May 
adorns our woods and meadows with 
Figure 13. 

Painted Capricorn. 
their youthful vegetation, their chirping 
birds and delicate flowers, so is the beginning of autumn 
none the less lavish in its golden harvest of grain, its melo- 
dious songsters, and its crown of brilliant flowers. There, 
from the red-leaved bushes, the tall Rudbeckia peeps out 
its golden head; here, the blue Vernonias and Liatris min- 
gle with the yellow Helianthus and Coreopsis, forming showy 
figures upon the green velvet carpet of the field; while the 
purple and white Eupatoriums, blending with the rosy Spi- 
reas and crimson Cardinal flowers, and all bordered by the 
variegated Asters and perfumed Golden-rod, form one magic 
sheet of kaleidoscopic images ! 
It is upon the slender Golden-rod, feasting upon the pol- 
len of its flowers and upon its aromatic leaves, that we see 
the handsome little Painted Capricorn Beetle. This insect 
is little more than half an inch long, and of a cylindrical 
form. Its whole body is black, and looks like velvet. Its 
head and thorax are crossed with yellow lines, and its wing- 
covers are marked with lines, triangles, and spots of the 
same color. Its antenne are half as long as its body, and 
its legs of a reddish brown color. 
Although this Beetle is seen in the month of September 
feeding upon the flower-dust of the Golden-rod, its children 
have a different taste. Hence the female deposits her eggs 
in the crevices of the bark of locust-trees, and the grubs 
