IN THE BUNGALOW. 



always uninvited and unwanted. Swift 

 eriough on the wing in the dark, are 

 these scavenger brutes, for probably the 

 larger proportion of them are night 

 fliers, but once they get into a lighted 

 room, and lamps have a most pernicious 

 fascination for them, they appear to im- 

 mediately lose their heads, and peace is 

 only bought by their capture and ejec- 

 tion. The most superficial inspection will 

 show that this tribe of beetles are coated 

 in exceedingly thick plated armour and 

 many of them have large horns sticking 

 out of their heads and other weird pro- 

 tuberances, the use of which is very 

 imperfectly known. It is generally the 

 males which are armed in this manner, 

 and they doubtless use this novel form 

 of armature in their fights for the posses- 

 sion of the unarmed softer sex : if females 

 encoated in bullet proof plate armour can 

 be included in such a category ! Perhaps, 

 however, even the hug of a mail-encased, 

 spiney, horny-headed scavenger beetle 



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