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 

 1st mir der gliicklichste von alien, 

 Dich sah ich, und gestand dir frci 

 Am ersten Tag im Monat May, 

 Dass dir mein Herz gewogcn sei. 

 Hat mein Gestandniss dir gefallen, 

 So ist der ers-te Tag im Monat May, 

 Fur micli der gliicklichste von alien." 



Which, translated, reads: "The first day of the month oi 

 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 larvce feed on 



different kinds of roots. Reasoning from analogy with the 



nature of other species of Cetonia, I should conclude that 



the larv of this Beetle continue in that condition upward 



of three years before they become perfect 



Figure 9. Beetles. 



The FOX-LIKE CETOXIA (AmpJiicoma vul- 

 }nna), 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- 

 sembling a fox. 

 Fox-like Cetonia. Another insect belonging to the family 



