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manufacturing modern antique scarabs. It is said 

 he has a novel method of making them look old by 

 feeding them to turkeys, after which he sells them 

 to the Arabs, who in turn peddle them to tourists. 



SAAVIIOEN BEETLES 



These beetles form a great trilx; sometimes 

 called Serricorn beetles, but sawhorn is easier to 

 remem])er. They are so called because the tips 

 of the joints of their antenna? are thought to look 

 like the teeth of a saw. Among the sawhorn 

 beetles are the Dicky-bugs (Fig. 220) which the 

 French call the Richards and some English call 

 burn-cows and others call Bubrestians, but the 

 Dicky-bug is the name by which the boys used to 

 call them and it is a name one can remember, be- 

 sides which Dick is short for the Richard of the 

 French. 



You will note in Fig. 169 that there is a little 

 piece of shell shaped like a triangle up near the 

 waist of the beetle where the wing-covers join. It 

 is quite distinct in Fig. 169 and in most of the 

 beetles already described, but when you come to 

 Dicky-bugs, it is very small. The Dicky-bugs 

 are often very prettily colored and you can find 



