In the northern part of South America--the Spanish Main--a species of Lady-bug, Captain Stuart tells me, is extensively worn as jewels and ornaments. He may, however, refer to some species of the Gold-beetles--_Chrysomelidæ_, next mentioned. Hurdis, who has frequently, in his Poems, availed himself of the modern discoveries in Natural History, has drawn the following accurate and beautiful picture of the Lady-bird in his tragedy of Sir Thomas More: SIR JOHN. What d’ye look at? CECILIA. A little animal, that round my glove, And up and down to every finger’s tip, Has traveled merrily, and travels still, Tho’ it has wings to fly: what its name is With learned men I know not; simple folk Call it the Lady-bird. SIR JOHN. Poor harmless thing! Save it. CECILIA. I would not hurt it for the world; Its prettiness says, Spare me; and it bears Armor so beautiful upon its back, I could not injure it to be a queen: Look, sir, its coat is scarlet dropp’d with jet, Its eyes pure ivory. SIR JOHN. Child, I’m not blind To objects so minute: I know it well; ’Tis the companion of the waning year, And lives among the blossoms of the hop; It has fine silken wings enfolded close Under that coat of mail. CECILIA. I see them, sir, For it unfurls them now--’tis up and gone.[25] Southey, also, in his lines addressed to this insect under the name of the Burnie-Bee, has thus elegantly described it: 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.[26] Chrysomelidæ--Gold-beetles. In Chili and Brazil, the ladies form necklaces of the golden _Chrysomelidæ_ and brilliant Diamond-beetles, with which their countries abound, which are said to be very beautiful.[27] The wing-cases of our common Gilded-Dandy, _Eumolpus auratus_, the metallic colors of which are pre-eminently brilliant and showy, have been recommended as ornaments for fancy boxes, and such like articles.[28] A closely allied species, I have seen upon the finest Parisian artificial flowers. Carabidæ. In some parts of Africa, a rather curious benefit is derived from a large beetle belonging to this family, the _Chlænius saponarius_, for it is manufactured by the natives into a soap.[29] Pausidæ.