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22. This is the Holy Beetle in the Tah. Bkroglyphka men- 
tioned by the Learned Mr Gr^^<7r;' in hfs Preface. Here 
are multitudes of them in the Summer time, I have 
often infpefted their rowling Pellets, yet could not find 
any alteration in the mafs of matter thro their motion, 
till at length! met with one of thefe thendeferted balls, 
in the center whereof lay a fmall white grub, which 
poffibly might owe its life to the motion. I fince found 
in one of tliefe Balls 2 very little young Beetles, differing 
in nothing but magnitude from the old. 
24* : SQ2iX2ih^mStercordrius alter, ore forcipato. 
2^: ' Starabeus iSy^r^^r^r/Mf & Elytris quafi 
(culptura excavatis, CmtharusCardlimaf/us obfcure 
cuprofus, vaginis inaequalibus ;/^^/V. 
26. Scarabeus Stercorarius Noftu tantum volans. 
gcarabeus Melolonthes. This and that other Dung- 
Beetle yon find amongft the Nafi- comes are not defcribed, 
but may I think be very aptly rankt with thofe of this 
kind, 
Scarabeus hteo-viridk. They are found amongft 
James-Town Weedy i. e. Strammomum, 
, Scarabeus minor mridi-c^eruleHs. Thefe lye among the 
Flowers of tliQ 4p^^J^^^' . 
^c^^r^fo/zj" colore viridi auro radjinte & luteis maculis 
^ * eleganter notatus. Cantharis ji;f/^/^V^2 viridis^ m^ 
lis aureis infignitis, FhiL No 24^. p. 397. 17. I know 
not but thefe 3 laft may be Cantharides. 
Here is alfo a fmaller kjqd,;alt H 
g Scarabeus colore grifep^ JcafnlkyMnis ^H^Ji oculis nigris 
' '": , molHtie fuhefcentibus noiaius. It is found among rotten 
Wood, and is (Called a Snapper^ from the noife it makes 
by thrufting part ofits Ner)^ into its Bre^, andfpringing 
it back again ; It fomething refembles the Gcindela Fir* 
ginienps of Moufety but its Head (hines not. 
I have made the fame Obfervation as Mr Banifter has of 
$he ff ringing facultj of thk elegant Beetle, and alfo fully 
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