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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 
CHAPTER VII. 
REMAINING ARTICULATA. 
The Hymenoptera being so much the most intelligent 
order, not merely of insects, but of Invert ebrata, and the 
Arachnida having been now considered, very little space 
need be occupied with the remaining classes of the Articu- 
lata. 
Coleoptera. 
Sir John Lubbock, in his first paper on Bees and 
Wasps, quotes the following case from Kirby and Spence, 
with the remarks which I append : — 
The first of these anecdotes refers to a beetle ( Aleuchus pilu- 
larius) which, having made for the reception of its eggs a pellet 
of dung too heavy for it to move, repaired to an adjoining Leap, 
and soon returned with three of his companions. 4 All four now 
applied their united strength to the pellet, and at length suc- 
ceeded in pushing it out; which being done, the three assistant 
beetles left the spot and returned to their own quarters/ This 
observation rests on the authority of an anonymous German 
artist; and though we are assured that he was a 4 man of strict 
veracity/ I am not aware that any similar fact has been re- 
corded by any other observer. 
Catesby, however, says : — 
I have attentively admired their industry, and their mutual 
assisting of each other in rolling these globular balls from the 
place where they, made them, to that of their interment, which 
is usually a distance of some yards, more or less. This they 
perform back foremost, by raising their hind parts and pushing 
away the ball with their hind feet. Two or three of them are 
sometimes engaged in trundling one ball, which from meeting 
with impediments, on account of the unevenness of the ground, 
is sometimes deserted by them. It is. however, attempted by 
others with success, unless it happen to roll into some deep 
hollow or ditch, where they are accustomed to leave it; but 
