ELEPHANT BEETLE. 
rinam, and about the River Oroonoko. It is 
of a black colour; the whole body being co- 
vered with a very hard shell, full as thick and 
strong as that of a small crab. It's length, 
from the hinder part to the eves, is almost four 
inches ; and, from the same part to the end of 
the proboscis, or trunk, from which it derives 
it's name of the Elephant Beetle, four inches 
and three quarters. The transverse diameter 
of the body is two inches and a quarter ; and 
the breadth of each elvtron, or case for the 
wings, is an inch and three tenths. The an- 
tenna, or feelers, are quite homy ; for which 
reason, the proboscis or trunk is moveable at 
it's insertion into the head, and seems to sup- 
ply the place of feelers. The horns, which 
are eight-tenths of an inch long, terminate in 
points. The proboscis is an inch and a quar- 
ter long, and turns upwards, making a crooked 
line, which terminates in two horns, each 
nearly a quarter of an inch in length, but not 
perforated at the cxtrcmitv* like the proboscis 
of other inscfts. About four-tenths of an 
inch above the head, or that side" next tlie 
bodv, there is a prominence or small horn, 
wiiich woAjld, if the rest of the trunk were 
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