The edition of the Book of the Dead which I have quoted from is that of M. Paul Pierret, _conservateur_ of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre, Paris, France.[4] This is founded on the Papyrus of Turin, which is of about the XXVIth Dynasty, the Saïtic period; the translator has also used in his work, the Egyptian manuscripts of the Louvre to assist in the elucidation of his readings of the Papyrus of Turin. His work is an advance on that of Dr. Samuel Birch, given in 1867, in the Vth volume of Baron von Bunsen's work on Egypt's Place in Universal History. A new translation of the Book of the Dead is now passing through the English press, by P. Le Page Renouf, Esq., but only a few chapters thus far have been printed. Mr. Renouf's work as an Egyptologist, deserves much more attention and credit from the learned of both his own and other countries, than it has so far received. The following among Greek and other ancient writers have mentioned the scarabæus, mostly in connection with Egypt. Orpheus, Theophrastus, Aristophanes, Pliny, Plutarch, Ælian, Clement of Alexandria, Porphyry, Horapollon, Diogenes Laertius, who cites as works in which it was mentioned, the Natural Philosophy by Manetho (_circa_ 286-247 B.C.,) the History of the Philosophy of the Egyptians, by Hecatæus (of Abdera? _circa_ 331 B.C.,) and the writings of Aristagoras (_circa_ 325-300 B.C.,) Eusebius, Arnobius, Epiphanius and Ausonius. The subject has been somewhat neglected in modern times. Two small brochures on the subject were published by Johann Joachim Bellermann, under the title of; _Ueber die Scarabäen-Gemmen, nebst Versuchen die darauf befindlichen Hieroglyphen zu erklären_, one in 1820, the other 1821. Another very small catalogue entitled; _Scarabées Égyptiens, figurés du Musée des Antiquea de sa majesté l'Empereur, Vienne, de l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Strauss_, 1824, was published in that year in Vienna. None of the above contain information of importance on the subject.