Ascending the tombstone to the right, is the Churchyard Beetle (Slaps 

 mortisaga'), distinguished by its intense blackness. Next, on the ground 

 below, is a small, black, shining Dung Beetle (one of the Histeridae) ; and 

 adjacent, a pair of black and orange Necrophori, notable for their industry in 

 interment of animal remains. Climbing the grass above, is the Silpha quadri- 

 punctata, a black and yellow feeder upon carrion ; and in descending flight, les- 

 sened by distance, is that most common of beetle scavengers, the Dor, or 

 Clock Geotrupes stercorarius). 



latter 

 The 



THE SCARAB^US AND ITS MODERN 

 WORSHIPPERS. 



HAT a striking contrast is there between the 

 two insects which figure most conspicuously in 

 the annals of antiquity the butterfly and the 

 dung-beetle ! The former was regarded by 

 the ancients as an emblem of the soul, the 

 was made by them an object of soul's worship, 

 one, all beauty, vivacity, and buoyancy; having no 



