GOAT BEETLE. 
TrnS curious jnse6t, which is the exa6l size 
represented in the figure annexed, was found 
by a cooper in London, on his cleavhig a piece 
of Virginia oak, for pipe staves. It is- of a 
dusky brown colour ; and takes it's name from 
the position of it\s long jointed horns, which 
tend backwards like those of the Goat. The 
piece of wood was given to Edwards, by the 
celebrated Mr. Joseph Ames, F. R. S. in April 
1758, with the insedl then alive, and Cc^t/- 
it's way through : a task which it accom- 
plished in the July following, when it came 
out through the hole v>^hich it had gnawed at 
the end, as appears in the print ; where, also, 
is visible, on the side of the wood, the cavity 
which it had made in the solid oak. The hole 
which it entered was in the other part of the 
wood, corresponding with that figured. 
Dr. Pye, of Mile End, had one of these 
Goat Beetles, which was found alive, in the 
Worm state, in a piece of hard wood brought 
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