CONTENTS 



DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTKATIONS. 



Jfrontisjuece. 



BEETLES IN GENERAL. 



An assemblage of Beetles, most of which arc described or mentioned in Epi- 

 sodes of the two former or present series. (See, especially, Second series, 

 p. 81, &c.) 



On the plant of Meadow Sorrel (Acetosa protends) to the left, are two small 

 Brown "Weevils (Curculionidce), with their globular cocoons attached to the 

 sagittate leaves. Ascending by the stalks of the same plant is the Cardinal 

 Beetle (Pyrochroa, cocdnea) ; and immediately below, two of the pretty little 

 green "Tortoises" (Cassida, eguestris\ which are found commonly on the 

 leaves of thistles. The elegant Musk Beetle (Cerambyx moschatus), a Eove 

 Beetle (Stapliylinus olens), and a beetle of the family Lepturidce, form the 

 trio on the left and middle of the foreground, of which the right-hand cor- 

 ner is occupied by one of the common Ground Beetles (Carabidce). Directly 

 above, head downwards, is the beautiful green and red Malachius tnspinosus, 

 allied to the Blister Beetle, and, one on either side of it, a pair of Chrysom- 

 elidce (Golden Apples). Above, on the stalk of the umbelliferous Earth-nut 

 (Eunvum) is a small black Staphytinus ; and on the blossom above, two 

 species or varieties of the predatory beetles with soft elytra, of the family 



