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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 cov 

 ered with them. The Emperor, as well as the whole army, 

 were accustomed to see General Dejcau 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 

 Dejeau 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, &quot; I am not dead ; but, alas ! my insects are all gone !&quot; 

 for his hat was literally torn to pieces. Six years after 

 this, in 1815, I met Count Dejeau 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 Actcwn, which, only a short time 

 before, had been presented to me by the Ilaytien Admiral 

 Banajotti, he having found it at the foot of a Cocoa-nut 

 Palm-tree on his plantation. 



The BHONZE DUNG BEETLE (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 

 of an inch long, 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 Cctonia (Figs. 

 8 and 0). Its antenna) are short, and terminate in a knob 



