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attentively admired their indefatigable Induftry, and 
mutual a (lifting each other in rolling thefe globular 
Halls to the Place of their Interment. This they 
perform Breech fore mod, by railing up their hind 
Part, and forcing along the Ball with their hind 
Feet. Two or three are fometimes engaged in trun- 
dling one Ball $ which often meeting with Impedi- 
ments by the Unevennefs of the Ground, is de- 
(erted by them s yet by others is again attempted 
with Succefs j except it rolls into a deep Hollow or 
Chink, where they are necertltated to leave it j re- 
peating the like Adion with the next Ball that falls 
in their Way. No one feems to know his own 
Ball, but an equal Care for all feems to afFed the 
whole Community. So intent are they at their 
Work, that tho’ handled, or other wife interrupted, 
they per lift in their oeconomical Employment with- 
out Fear or Apprehenrton of Danger. The Size of 
this Infed is that of the Figure here exhibited 5 it is 
all over of a dusky Black 5 it has fix Legs, two 
joined to the Thorax , and four to the Abdomen. 
1 here are always accompanying thefe above- 
mention’d fome larger ones, of a more elegant 
Strudure and Colour, which are much lefs numerous, 
being about one in twenty to the other. The Tho- 
rax of this is cover’d with a Shield, of a crimfon- 
colour’d metallic Luftre ; the Head of the like Co- 
lour, blended with Green ; on the Crown of the 
Head (lands a (hilling black Horn, recurved back- 
ward, &c. Thefe are commonly called King-Tum- 
ble-turds ; tho’, by what appears, they artume no 
Pre eminence 5 but, without Dirtindion, partake of 
the like dirty Drudgery with the reft. 
Lilium, 
