MORRON BEETLE 
The natives call this Beetle, the Morron, 
Mor-rhon, or Mor-rone ; for it is not ahvays 
easy to convey the exa£l sound of these rude 
languages, by any arrangement of letters or 
syllables. Without having been able to dis- 
cover what particular signification, if any, 
this word mav denote, as descriptive of the 
Beetle's form or qualities, we have not scrupled 
to adopt it. 
The beautiful markings, however, which 
give somewhat of an artificial . appearance to 
this Beetle, and bear very little resemblance to 
any of the numerous forms in which nature is 
generally found to adorn her off^"spring of any 
description, would make it easy for tliose na- 
turalists who are solicitous to swell the no- 
menclature of nature, to give a new and sig- 
nificant name to this very elegant and curious 
insedl. 
Though tlie size of the Morron Beetle, 
wliich we have figured, is cxadllv that of na- 
ture J it seems by no means certain, that the 
animal may not sometimes grow to a superior 
magnitude 
Indcc.l, 
