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upper surface of a bluish or purplish colour, with a transparent 

 spot in the middle of the fore-wings ; the under surface brown, 

 with a dark streak resembling a midrib running from the tip of 

 the fore-wings to the tail of the hind wings. The under surface 

 is irregularly streaked and mottled, and Mr. A. R. Wallace 

 describes the Sumatran Kallima paralekta as being invisible when 

 at rest, from its resemblance to the dead leaves among which it 

 always perches. It sits with its wings over its back, and its 



The Sacred Beetle, Scarabceus sacer. 



raised and hidden between them, while the 

 wings rest upon the branch, corresponding- 



head and antennae 



tails of the hind 



exactly in appearance with the stalk of the leaf. 



6. The Sacred Beetle, Scarabceus sacer, is one of about seventy 

 species of a genus of Old World Beetles which have their metro- 

 polis in tropical Africa, and is remarkable as being that most 

 frequently represented on Egyptian monuments. 



