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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 213

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RHINOCEROS-BEETLE. The insect you send isnot a bug, but a beetle.There are many differences between the twoorders. Chief among these is the fact that abug sucks, a beetle bites. Your insect, therhinoceros-beetle (known to scientists as Dy-nastes tityrus), has the appearance, at least, ofability to… … HERCULES-BEETLE OF THE WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA. largest North American beetle. (You will re-call that our giant bug was pictured on page 848of Nature and Science for July, 1901.) In the West Indies and South America thereis a still larger member of this family, the Her-cules-beetle, which is…

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