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

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

 below, is a small, black, shining Dung Beetle (one of the Histeridce) ; 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). 



THE SCARAB^EUS 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 



latter was made by them an object of soul's worship. 



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



