This vigneUe represents the transformations of the Lady-bird (Coccinella). 

 On the large hop-leaf, which occupies the foreground, is a group of eggs ; 

 near them, to the left, a grub or larva, devouring a hop aphis ; again, to the 

 left, attached to a stalk, is the pupa. Higher, on the right, is a perfect Lady- 

 bird (C. semptem-punctata), of which genus two other species are figured, 

 one in flight, the other on a stalk. 



THE LADY-BIRD OF OUR CHILDHOOD. 



ANY who exterminate Spiders as a matter of 

 merit, crush Earwigs without remorse, and 

 hold Slack-Beetles in abhorrence, look with 

 involuntary kindness on the little Red- Beetle, 

 styled a Lady-bird. For this especial favour 

 she stands indebted partly to her pretty spotted gown, and 

 partly to her being associated with the earliest recollections of 



