290 DIVISION III. ARTICULATED AMIMALS.—CLASS IV. INSECTA. 
M. Bogdanoff, in many governorships of the south of Russia, the lovers of 
sporting are in the habit of making their dogs, from time to time, swallow 
(as a preservative) half of a Cetonia, with bread or a little wine. 
dyery one in those countries is persuaded of the efticacy of this means 
for stopping the development of the disease. One ought not, perhaps, to 
reject a belief so wide-spread and deeply rooted without some experiments 
to guarantee us in doing so; for medicine does not yet possess any remedy 
against hydrophobia. It might not, then, be useless to try this. 
Two smaller species than the Rose Beetle, the C. stictiea, and the C. hir- 
tella, which has yellowish hairs, live on the flowers of thistles. Western 
Africa, the Cape, and Madagascar are very rich in species of Cetonix. 
Among the Cetoniadw is the genus Goliathus — gigantic insects, which inhabit 
Africa. Their total length sometimes attains from three to five inches. 
Their colors are generally a dull white or yellow, which has nothing metallic 
about it, with spots of a velvety-black; these are due to a sort of a down, 
of an extreme thinness, and which very easily comes off. The head of these 
enormous Coleoptera is generally cut or scooped out, and is adorned some- 
times with one or two horns. Their legs, strong and robust, are armed 
with spurs, and sometimes present on their exterior sharp indentations, 
which give to these insects a crabbed physiognomy, which their inoffensive 
habits are far from justifying. All these horns, and all these teeth, which 
look so terrible, are nothing, in fact, with a great number of these insects, 
but simple ornaments. They compose the picturesque uniform of the males. 
It is equivalent to the bear-skin caps, the flaming helmets, and the bullion- 
fringed epaulets of our soldiers. The dress of the female Goliathus is much 
more modest, as is becoming to the sex. 
Gestrupes. — As the name indicates, these insects make holes in the 
ground, which they scoop out in fields, generally under the excrement of 
beeves, which has grown dry. They fly at night with a dull, drowsy, buzz- 
ing sound. The 
G. Stercorarius, the Shard-borne Beetle, has been immortalized by the 
great dramatic poet, who makes Macbeth exclaim, — 
“Ere, to black Hecate’s summons, 
The Shard-borne Beetle, with his drowsy hums, 
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done 
A deed of dreadful note!” 
In the section of Coleoptera named JZeteromera are found the Can- 
tharidiw, or Blistering Beetles. There are several genera, possessing, in 
various degrees, the same habits and yesicating qualities. They counterfeit 
death when seized, and many of them at such times emit a yellowish liquid 
