COLEOPTERA. 455 
ing animals and horses that they must be looked for. They fly 
especially at night, and may be seen buzzing about on fine sum- 
mer’s evenings in the vicinity of dung heaps. 
The Geotrupes stercorarius, the Shard-born Beetle, Clock, or 

Fig. 439.—Scarabeeus (Golofa) Povteri. 
Dumbledor, 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 77ox, which belongs to the same group, 
