OMG!!!!!

It dawned fine and sunny this morning, so I decided to go to Iping Common again, and maybe photograph some more spiders for you...well that was the plan....but it turned into a really quite exciting day!
I was standing in the brambles sweltering with my leggings and boots on, when I noticed this little beetle flying, out of the corner of my eye. I quickly located where it had landed, and managed to get a few shots before it took off again! I did search for it, to get a better look, but it had gone, never to be seen again, which was a shame as I had never seen a beetle quite like it before.
It is quite similar to the Rose chafer (but they are green) so as soon as I got home I tried looking it up.
At first I thought it was a Variable chafer Gnorimus variabilis, which would have been nice, as that is only found in a couple of places in the Uk with only a few squares on the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) gateway map. Then a Flickr friend of mine correctly identified it as a White-spotted Rose Beetle Oxythyrea funesta, a eurpopean beetle only occaisionally found in the UK with no squares at all on the NBN gateway!!!!
Now I need to speak to the Sussex beetle recorder, as the gateway is often out of date, but I am well chuffed!
After this I also found 2 lovely longhorns, The Hornet beetle Leptura aurulenta, and the Red brown longhorn Stictoleptura rubra.
What a day!!!!!!