236 THE BUTTERFLY VIVARIUM. 



as it is said, was suspended to the upper end of a 

 stick fixed firmly in the ground, and the scent of 

 the carcase soon attracted the " Sextons," who ap- 

 peared at first much disconcerted hy the situation 

 of the coveted supply of provender for their future 

 progeny. After a kind of consultation, however, 

 which appears to have been very much to the 

 point, they proceeded to undermine the stick, 

 which, yielding to a few hours' unceasing labour, 

 at last fell, and the prize was secured and duly in- 

 terred after the usual fashion. 



But I believe I must now confine myself, or pretty 

 nearly so, to a brief description of the Coleopterous 

 insects represented in Plate VII., and the Lady- 

 birds, and Glow-worm in Plates V. and VI., the last 

 two being among the most attractive of the whole 

 Beetle tribe, and well suited to a Vivarium. No. 2 

 in Plate VII. is a handsome species of the May-bug 

 tribe, Melolontha Fullo, which, though rarely found 

 in England, is common on the Prench coast, 

 whence it might be procured and placed as a prin- 

 cipal ornament in the Vivarium, where it might 

 easily be kept in health, as it is in its perfect state 

 a leaf-feeder. The larva of this handsome insect is 

 very similar to that of the common May-bug, 

 Melolontha Vulgaris, which is represented at No. 3 



