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There is not sufficient evidence to induce us to believe that mutilations are ever inherited; and I should prefer explaining the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, by the long-continued effects of disuse in their progenitors; for as the tarsi are almost always lost in many dung-feeding beetles, they must be lost early in life, and therefore cannot be much used by these insects.
Hence, it will perhaps be safest to look at the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, not as cases of inherited mutilations, but as due to the effects of long-continued disuse; for as many dung-feeding beetles are generally found with their tarsi lost, this must happen early in life; therefore the tarsi cannot be of much importance or be much used by these insects.
Ateles marginatus, colour of the ruff of; hair on the head of. Ateuchus cicatricosus, habits of. Ateuchus stridulation of. Athalia, proportions of the sexes in. Atropus pulsatorius. Attention, manifestations of, in animals. Audouin, V., on a hymenopterous parasite with a sedentary male.
In some other genera they are present, but in a rudimentary condition. In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient.
Brown-Sequard, Dr., on the inheritance of the effects of operations by guinea-pig. Bruce, on the use of the elephant's tusks. Brulerie, P. de la, on the habits of Ateuchus cicatricosus; on the stridulation of Ateuchus. Brunnich, on the pied ravens of the Feroe islands. Bryant, Dr., preference of tame pigeon for wild mate. Bryant, Captain, on the courtship of Callorhinus ursinus.
It is the country of the calosomes with golden ends; of the Goliaths of Guinea and of the Gabon, whose feet are furnished with thorns; of the sacred Egyptian ateuchus, that the Egyptians of Upper Egypt venerated as gods.
In some other genera they are present, but in a rudimentary condition. In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient.
"My savin' soul! WHAT kind of a bug did you say 'twas?" "Why, I don't know that I did say. It is a representation of an Egyptian beetle, Ateuchus Sacer, you know. The ancient Egyptians worshiped the beetle and so they " "Wait! Wait a minute, Mr. Bangs. WHAT did you say they done to it?" "I said they worshiped it, made a god of it, you understand." "A god! Out of a a pertater bug! Go long, Mr.
There is not sufficient evidence to induce me to believe that mutilations are ever inherited; and I should prefer explaining the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, by the long-continued effects of disuse in their progenitors; for as the tarsi are almost always lost in many dung-feeding beetles, they must be lost early in life, and therefore cannot be much used by these insects.
Lastly, the male Ateuchus stridulates to encourage the female in her work, and from distress when she is removed. Mr. According to Mr. Doubleday, "the noise is produced by the insect raising itself on its legs as high as it can, and then striking its thorax five or six times, in rapid succession, against the substance upon which it is sitting."
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