The Sacred Beetle in Captivity 



much harder tasks to perform, the Geotrupes 

 has retained his tarsi. Until then we will 

 go on believing that the first Scarab who 

 rolled his ball perhaps on the shore of some 

 lake in which the Palaeotherium bathed, was 

 as innocent of front tarsi as his descendant 

 of to-day. 



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