34 NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. 
parte, was so anxious to increase the number of specimens 
in his entomological cabinet, that he even availed himself 
of his military campaigns for this purpose, and was con- 
tinually occupied in collecting insects and fastening them 
with pins on the outside of his hat, which was always coy- 
ered with them. The Emperor, as well as the whole army, 
were accustomed to see General Déjeau’s head thus singu- 
larly ornamented even when in battle. But the departed 
spirits of those murdered insects once had their revenge on 
him; for, in the battle of Wagram, in 1809, and while he 
was at the side of Napoleon, a shot from the enemy struck 
Déjeau’s head, and precipitated him senseless from his 
horse. Soon, however, recovering from the shock, and be- 
ing asked by the Emperor if he was still alive, he answer- 
ed, ‘I am not dead; but, alas! my insects are all gone!” 
for his hat was literally torn to pieces. Six years after 
this, in 1815, I met Count Déjeau as an exile at Fiume, 
on the Adriatic, and made several entomological excursions 
with him. 
The celebrated Prince Paul of Wiirtemberg, another pas- 
sionate Naturalist, whom I met in 1829 at Port-au-Prince, 
being one day at my house, shed tears of envy when I show- 
ed him the gigantic beetle Acton, which, only a short time 
before, had been presented to me by the Haytien Admiral 
Banajotti, he having found it at the foot of a Cocoa-nut 
Palm-tree on his plantation. 
The Bronze Dune Beetir (Copris carnifex).—This is 
one of the most splendid Scavenger Beetles of North Amer- 
ica, and is found in horse and cow dung on our roads, and 
in our meadows and pastures. It is about three-quarters 
and has a short, vaulted body without 
a scutel, that is, without that little triangular horny plate 
between the upper parts of the two wing-covers, which we 
find in so many others; for instance, in the Cetonia (Figs. 
8 and 9). Its antennez are short, and terminate in a knob 
of an inch long, 
