CHRYSOMELIDiE. — CAR ABID^. — PAU SID^. 23 



Back o'er thy shoulders throw thy ruby shards, 

 With many a tiny coal-black freckle deck'd ; 



My watchful eye thy loitering saunter guards, 

 My ready hand thy footsteps shall protect. 



So shall the fairy train, by glow-worm light, 

 With rainbow tints thy folding pennons fret, 



Thy scaly breast in deeper azure dight, 



Thy burnish'd armor deck'd with glossier jet.i 



Ghrysomelidae — Gold-beetles. 



In Chili and Brazil, the ladies form necklaces of the 

 golden Chrysomelidse and brilliant Diamond-beetles, with 

 which their countries abound, which are said to be very 

 beautiful.2 The wing-cases of our common Gilded-Dandy, 

 Eumolpus auratus, the metallic colors of which are pre- 

 eminently brilhant and showy, have been recommended as 

 ornaments for fancy boxes, and such like articles.^^ A 

 closely allied species, I have seen upon the finest Parisian 

 artificial flowers. 



Carabidae. 



In some parts of Africa, a rather curious benefit is de- 

 rived from a large beetle belonging to this family, the 

 Chlsenius saponarim, for it is manufactured by the natives 

 into a soap.* 



Pausidse. 



The etymology of the word Pausus, Dr. Afzelius im- 

 agines to be from the Greek -aocn:;, signifying a pause, 

 cessation, or rest; for Linnaeus, now (in 1796) old and in- 

 firm, and sinking under the weight of age and labor, saw 



1 Quot. with preceding in Newell's Zool. of the Poets, p. 50-2. 



2 Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 317. 



3 Jaeger, Life of Amer. Ins., p. 61. 

 * Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 31 H. 



