scarabaeus

That is the reason the scarabaeus has no eyes, so the old ones say.

And as much may be said of the larva of Scarabaeus pentodon, a fellow-boarder of the Oryctes and the Cetonia.

The Scarabaeus was the insignium or the 'arms,' of a very distinguished and very rare patrician family.

To the centre is suspended by a small ring a scarabaeus of solid gold inlaid with lapis lazuli.

There must be two kinds of hair on his tail, and on his tongue an excrescence in the form of the sacred beetle Scarabaeus.