at NATURAL HISTORY. 
two horns on the head behind the fnout, and there are fix feet or legs 
forked at the ends. This has been juft taken notice of, and differs 
chiefly from the Elephant- Beetle, in not having the horn on the fnout 
forked at the end; befides which it has no horn on the belly. There 
is alfo another Rhinoceros-Beetle, which is common about Vienna in 
Germany. The horn has a greater refemblance to that of a Rhinoceros, 
for it turns up like it, and is fharp at the end, and behind the head 
it has a prominent bump, and there are fix feet as in the former. It — 
is all over as black as pitch, except the belly, which is of a deep red, 
The horn of the nofe is fo very fharp, that it feems to be whetted to a 
point. The third and fourth kinds are much of the fame thapes, only 
the wings of the former are longer than the cafes, and in thefe they: 
are fhorter. They look as if they were covered over with fhining- 
ink, and the horns on the head are full of knots. The head is of a 
greenifh gold-colour, and the fhoulders are red; but the belly is pur- 
ple, and the cafes of the wings are of the fame colour as the head, 
The feet and legs are of a dun-colour, and the wings under the cafes, 
are whitith. 
The Stag-Beetle is of a dufky-brown colour on the back, or rather. 
blackith, efpecially about the cafes of the wings and breaft. It is above 
an inch long, and about half an inch broad, and it has two horns with- 
out joints, but branched like thofe of a Stag, whence it has its name. 
When this Beetle is full grown they are as long as a man’s little finger, 
and there are nippers at the end with which this animal can pinch or lay. 
hold of any thing, they being not unlike lobfter claws. ‘The eyes are 
hard, prominent and whitifh, and near them on both fides there are 
feelers, one pair of which are branched, and placed between the horns 
and the eyes, having each a joint which makes almoft a right angle. 
The other pair are placed in the middle of the forehead and are firait 
and flat, having each a tubercle like the head of a nail at the end, 
whence by fome they are faid to be clavated. It has fix feet, of which 
the foremoft pair are longer and greater than the reft. The horns are 
fometimes as red as coral, which give this Beetle a very beautiful ap- 
- pearance 5 and the eggs when they are hatched turn into worms with 
fix feet, which are afterwards changed into Beetles. It is very com- 
mon in Kent and Suffex, and is fometimes feen in other parts of Lngland, 
The Beetle with lunated, prominent, denated jaws, and a fmooth breaft, 
is of the larger kind, being an inch long, and two thirds of an inch broad. 
‘Fhe thorax is fmooth, convex and black, without any prominences, 
though it has a fort of an edge. The cafes of the wings are fmooth 
and of a blackifh purple colour. The jaws are in the fhape of a half- 
moon, and are prominent and black, having two teeth in each. It is 
found in hedges where there are ath trees, for it feeds on the rotten 
art of their trunks, and burrows in the earth under their roots. 
| The Brafs Beetle,is of the larger kind, and has a fhort broad breaft, 
the fhape in general being confiderably broad in proportion to its lengths. 
but the eyes are fmall, and the legs long and flender. ‘the whole bo- 
dy and outer part of the cafes of the wings are of a fine fhining green, 
with a mixture of yellow. It is fometimes met with in our gardens. 
‘The Beetle with clavated feelers, and the cafes of the wings on the fore 
part. Itis of the {mall kind, and of an oblong fhape, with a black 
head and breaft. The cafes of the wings are grey towards the top, but 
i ee a elfewhere. 
