The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ght or nine joints, the last three of which form the knob; the laliruin and manihhles are membranousand hidden. Tlie terminal lobe of the maxilla; is also of this consistence, broad, and curved on theupper edge ; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is always largest, and the last joint of the labial isslenderer than the preceding, or very small, behind each of which last pali>i is a membranous produc-tion, or tonguelet. The sternum offers no particular p
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ght or nine joints, the last three of which form the knob; the laliruin and manihhles are membranousand hidden. Tlie terminal lobe of the maxilla; is also of this consistence, broad, and curved on theupper edge ; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is always largest, and the last joint of the labial isslenderer than the preceding, or very small, behind each of which last pali>i is a membranous produc-tion, or tonguelet. The sternum offers no particular prominence, and the claws of the tarsi are simple;the fore tarsi are often wanting, either naturally or from being worn away. Some of the Coprophagi have the two middle legs much wider apart at the base than the others;the labial palpi very hairy, with the last joint minute ; the scutellum wanting, or very small. Ateuchm, Weber (Scarabreus of the Latins and Mac Leay, Heliocanlhnrus of the Greeks), consists of speciespeculiar to the old world, with the body rounded, generally depressed above, ahke in both ; antennae 9-jointed,. COLEOPTERA. 523 with a leaf-like club; four posterior tibiar, slender, clonfiiatc, not thickened at the tip, truncated obliquely and ter-minated by a single spur, and with the outer margin of the elytra not sinuated near the base ; the clypeus is i;ene-rally divided into three lobes, its ed|;e presenting six teeth. These insects (which Mr. Mac Leay has described in his excellent Horte Entomotogica) inclose their epgs in ballsof dunir, or even of human excrement, like large pills, (whence they have been called Pilularii,) which they rollalong with their hind feet (often in company), until they reach the hole in which they are to be deposited. Two of thespecies were worshipped by the ancient Egyptians, and introduced into their hieroglyphical writings. Theirelligy is represented on all their monuments, moilcls of them were made of the most precious mat
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