Chap. 34.] 
THE BEETLE. 
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tries, or in cool and shady thickets. They will take to some 
places much more readily than others. In the district of Miletus 
they are only to be found in some few spots ; and in Cephal- 
lenia, there is a river which runs through the country, on one 
side of which they are not to be found, while on the other 
they exist in vast numbers. In the territory of Ehegium, 
again, none of the grasshoppers have any note, while be- 
yond the river, in the territory of Locri,^ they sing aloud. 
Their wings are formed similarly to those of bees, but are 
larger, in proportion to the body. 
CHAP. 33. (28.) — THE WIKGS OF INSECTS.® 
There are some insects which have two wings, flies, for 
instance ; others, again, have four, like the bee. The wings 
of the grasshopper are membranous. Those insects which are 
armed with a sting in the abdomen, have four wings. 'None 
of those which have a sting in the mouth, have more than 
two wings. The former have received the sting for the pur- 
pose of defending themselves, the latter for the supplying of 
their wants. If pulled from off the body, the wings of an 
insect will not grow again ; no insect which has a sting in- 
serted in its body, has two wings only. 
CHAP. 34. THE BEETLE. THE GLOW-WOKM. OTHER KLNDS OP 
BEETLES. 
Some insects, for the preservation of their wings, are covered 
with a crust the beetle, for instance, the wing of which is 
peculiarly fine and frail. To these insects a sting has been 
denied by [N'ature ; but in one large kind^^ we find horns of a 
remarkable length, two-pronged at the extremities, and forming 
pincers, which the animal closes when it is its intention to 
8 The river Csecina. See B. iii. c. 15. This river is by Strabo, B. vi. 
c. 260, called the Alex, ^lian has the story that the Locrian grasshop- 
pers become silent in the territory of Ehegium, and those of Ehegium in 
the territory of Locri, thereby implying that they each have a note in its 
own respective country. 
^ Cuvier says that the observations in this Chapter, derived from Aris- 
totle, are remarkable for their exactness, and show that that philosopher 
had studied insects with the greatest attention. 
^0 Or sheath *, the Coleoptera of the naturalists. 
The flying stag-beetle, the Lucanus cervus of Linnaeus. 
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