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rejected, than the brilliant charmer who gets accepted at his 
first advance. One really requires to give several hours to 
such an observation as the one I have described.—C. F. M. 8.” 
CopRID BEETLES BELIEVED TO BE INTERNAL PARASITES OF 
MAN. THE WILES OF “ MEDICINE-MEN.’’—Prof. POULTON, in 
bringing forward the following communication from Mr. 
©. N. Barker of the Durban Museum, said that he believed 
an analogous form of deception was practised by the Australian 
medicine-men, the foreign objects palmed off by them being 
bones, pieces of wood, etc. 
“ May 3, 1921.—A short time ago (3.11.21) we received 
from Mr. Franks, of Tugela, Natal, a small bottle containing 
a large number of dung-beetles, which I determined as Ontho- 
phagus suggilatus Klug, O. lutulentus Har., O. parumnotatus 
Fahr., and some small Sisyphus; suggilatus, which is the 
smallest species, formed the bulk of the collection, but there 
were also a considerable number of .lutulentus, a medium- 
sized insect. These Mr. Franks states were passed alive 
with the excreta of a native woman after the employment 
of a native herb medicine used principally as an enema and a 
small portion taken internally. The medicine of course was 
administered by a native doctor, and the woman had been 
sick with internal troubles for over three months. 
“In the ‘ Annals of the Natal Museum,’ vol. ii, 1909, there 
is a comprehensive paper on Zulu medicine and medicine-men 
by the Rev. Alfred T. Bryant, and under the heading ‘ In- 
testinal Parasites ’ he has the following :— 
“<7 Khambi.—There is a complaint comparatively common 
among the Kafirs of these parts which seems to be unknown 
to medical science. It appears to be caused by an intestinal 
parasite called by the Zulus ikKhambi (sometimes iGhotho or 
iBhungane). This is an imago of a beetle measuring from 
a + to 4 an inch in length, with greenish-black elytra. The 
beetle is almost identical in appearance with the dung-beetle 
found in fresh cow-dung. Specimens of the beetle were 
obtained by me in June, 1903, at first hand from a sick native 
girl in my charge in Zululand, who had been passing them 
periodically in as many as a dozen or more at a single evacua- 
tion throughout a period of ten years or more. The specimens 
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