Note 5 — Chapter vii · THE SACRED BEETLE: THE NYMPH; THE RELEASE
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Mulsant,5 in his volume on the French Lamellicorns, quotes Horapollo and his allowance of thirty fingers to the insect according to the number of days which the sun takes to traverse a sign of the Zodiac. He repeats Latreille’s explanation. He goes even farther. Here are his own words: