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THE INSECT WOELD. 



animals and horses that they must be lookecl for. They fly espe- 

 cially at night, and may be seen buzzing about on fine summer's 

 evenings in the vicinity of dung heaps. 



The Geotrupes stercoraceous, the Shard-born beetle, Clock, or 



Fig. 440. Scarabsetis (G-olofa) Porteri. 



Bumbledor, is of a brilliant bluish black, and attains to a length 

 of about two- thirds of an inch. We may consider this Coleopteron 

 as an useful auxiliary of man, in ridding the soil of excrementious 

 matter, The genus Trox, which belongs to the same group, 



