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out. So there he is. Do you see his long horns folded over, and 
his legs most grown ? This white worm had no legs to speak of — 
at least they were so small that they were of no use. But he had 
a pair of jaws to make up, and indeed he needed a strong pair to 
bore into wood. 
There are a great many kinds of these long horned Beetles. 
One of the most interesting, is the Musk Beetle, which gives out a 
most delightful smell of musk, or some say of otto of roses. The 
odor is so strong that he is often smelt before he is seen, and if he 
is held a few minutes in a handkerchief, he scents it up strongly. 
He's a very pretty fellow, too ; his dress is of brilliant green. 
looking in some lights, blue and gold, and his shape is slender and 
elegant. Unlike most of these little creatures, the Musk Beetle 
can make a noise, from which he is sometimes called a Squeaker. 
The sound is not made with the mouth, but by jerking the head up 
and down, and thus rubbing one part of his hard shelly covering 
against another. 
Some of this Longicorn family have perfectly monstrous 
horns — five or six times as long as they are — and how they can 
get about with these things to carry, and not break them off, I 
can't see. 
In the Malay Islands, an English naturalist — Mr. Wallace — 
found more than a hundred varieties of the long horned gentry ; 
some very beautiful, and all strange creatures. 
