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animals and horses that they must be looked for. They fly espe- : 
cially at night, and may be seen buzzing about on fine summer’s 
evenings in the vicinity of’ dung heaps. 
The Geotrupes stercoraceous, the Shard-born beetle, Clock, or 
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Fig. 440.—Scarabeeus (Golofa) Porteri. | 
Dumbledor, is of a brilliant bluish black, and attains to a length 
of about two-thirds of an inch. We may consider this Coleopteron 
as an useful auxiliary of man, in ridding the soil of excrementious 
matter. The genus 7ror, which belongs to the same group, 


