Note 2 — Chapter xiii · THE GEOTRUPES: NEST-BUILDING
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
This little hollow contrived in the substance of the sausage, at the lower end, does not agree at all with what I have read about the Geotrupes’ nest-building. Quoting an old German writer, Frisch,2 an author whom the poverty of my library does not allow me to consult, Mulsant,3 speaking of the Stercoraceous Geotrupes, says: