THE 



MIDAS BEETLE. 



Generic Character. 



Antenna divided at the tip or head into feveral la- 

 . mellse. 



Tibia', or fecond joints of the fore -legs generally 

 toothed. 



Specific Character. 



NON-SCUTELLATED BEETLE, with broad 

 treble-horned thorax and double horned foli- 

 ated clypeus. 



In the beetle tribe we are prefented with a wonderful, 

 and, as it were, almoft capricious diverfity of form. 

 Every variation of horn and procefs that imagination 

 can conceive being exemplified in the different fpecies 

 of this extenfive genus; and if their fee approached 

 to that of the larger animals, even the- moofters of; 

 romance would be exceeded by the realities of nature. 

 In fome the head alone is horned, in others the thorax 

 only ; and in others both head and thorax are furnifhed 

 with thefe appendages. Amonft the rareft, as well as 

 tfie molt fmgular fpecies, may be reckoned the beetle 



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