THE SONG OF THE BEETLE.
[The following graceful effusion, by a well-known Longfellow-countryman of the Colorado insect, should be hailed with delight by the British public. As it contains an accurate description of the Beetle, we would suggest that it should be learned by heart by the Rector of Hitcham's school-children, with a view to preventing entomological mistakes.]
Should you ask me of the Beetle,
Of the Colorado Beetle!—
Properly the Doryphora
Decemlineata christen'd—
I should answer, I should tell you,
"He's a beggar for potatoes,
Quite a glutton at potatoes—