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the nape of the neck, being first well shaved, and upon the 

 muscles of the fore-part of the arms (on every muscle one), and 

 under the sole of each foot one, because this doth wonderfully 

 rouze up such as are in a lethargy." 



I should think that it did rouse them up ! Let any of my 

 readers take into his hand one of our common Dor Beetles, 

 and let it try to scratch its way out. He will not be very long 

 before he lets it go. The pain which must be inflicted by the 

 large and powerful Scarabams, especially when fastened on the 

 tenderest parts of the body, which have already been blistered 

 and cauterized, must be something almost too horrible to 

 contemplate. 



The next family is that of the Deltochilidae, of which we 

 have no example in England. These insects have the head almost 



Fig. 53. — JMtocliilum Maeleayi. 



(Black, with chocolate elytra. ) 



hexagonal, and the eyes are so completely divided by a broad band 

 of horny substance, that a small portion of them appears on the 

 upper part and a large portion on the lower. Indeed, the insect, 

 like the well-known Whirligig Beetles, appears to have four eyes 

 instead of two. The name Deltocliilum is Greek, and signifies 

 a delta-like or triangular jaw. 



The tibia of the fore- legs are broad, flat, strong, and armed 

 on their outside edges with three long and sharp spikes, evidently 



