THE WALKS ABROAD OF 



ance; and also the Coccinellac, called in France betes 

 a bon Dieu, great destroyers of the Aphides or green- 



fly- 



" The burying beetles are also useful to us, their 

 office being to dispose of offensive remains; the 

 Staphylinida3, one species being said to destroy the 



EGYPTIAN' SACKED BEETLE (Scar(lb(?1is). 



larvee of flies ; the Silphge, some of which wage war 

 against snails ; the dung-beetles, with their disgusting 

 food. This, by the way, did not prevent the ancient 

 Egyptians from treating them as sacred ; the Ne- 

 crophori, already mentioned, which have the habit of 

 interring the bodies of smaller animals, possibly with 



