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* BHINOCEROS. 100 BHIZOCABPE^. the fact that the in- ire iitch &^h!tocene' aeposit^"of" Northol-n Mi^ th^uyht ll»..-.., whereupon the sacs becoim' nurseries for the j'icisiocene ucp attained 5-15 tadpoh-s until they reaeh maturity. Ihe a" length of 15 feet, and had two large liorns in process is not wliol|y known, but I'^sbeen ^tud'e^d tandeni and iirismatic leetli. The woolly rhi- noceros {Milodiis iiiitifjuilatis) is found fossil in the Pleistocene deposits of Enjjland and in the cave deposits of Europe, and its complete car casses have been obtained from the frozen mud banks of the tundras of Northern Siberia. It was a larfje two-horned species, with a heavy fur of coarse woolly hair. Bim.iOGRAi'UY. The best general account of the tril)e is by Lvdekker in Royal Natural Bis- toni. vol. ii.' (London, 1890). Consult, also: Bhindford, Fauna of British India: Mammals (ib., 1888-91); Baker, Wild Heasts and Their Ways (ib., 1890); Hornaday, Tim Years in the Jungle (New York, 1885) ; Drunimond, Large Game . . . of Southeast Africa (Edinburgh, 187.')) : and similar books of naturalists and sportsmen relating to Southern Asia and Africa ; Osborn, ■■Phylogeny of the Pvliinoceroses of Eu- rope." Bulk-iin of 'American Miiseinii of Natural History, vol. xiii.. (New York, 1900); id., "The Extinct Rhinoceroses," Memoirs of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, vol. i., part iii. (ib., 1898). Sec Colored Plate of Pachy- derms. by Espada, an outline of who.se investigations is given in English l)y Gadow', Amphibia and Rep- tiles (London, 1901). BHINOPLASTIC OPEBATION (from Gk. pis. rliis, nose -f irXdaauv, pluasein, to mold). When a portion or the wliole of the nose has Ijeen destroyed by accident or disease the de- ficiency may be restored by a transplantation of skin from 'an adjoining healthy part. After paring away any remains of the old nose, a Hap of skin of the 'required shape is carefully dis- sected from the forehead until it hangs by a narrow strip or pedicle between the eyebrows. Then after all bleeding is stopped the flap is twisted on itself so that its skin surface remains out, while its base is brought down in position to correspond to the original base of the nose. The edges of the flap are then sutured accurately to the denuded edges of the former meuilirane, spaces being left on either side of the lower end of the Hap for the nostrils. As practiced at the present time the operation has received two im- portant modifications: The first consists in the use of a permanent frame of gold or aluminum or platinum, which is fastened into the bony frame- BHINOCEBOS BEETLE. A name in the work surrounding the nasal apperture and which South for a large scaraba?id beetle (Dynastes gives shape and profile to the nose: the second tityus). It is most abundant in the southern consists in the employment of skin-grafts to cover Atlantic States, but extends west to New Mex- ico and north to Cape Jlay and southern Penn- sylvania. It is a large beetle, nearly 2% inches in length, and is stout. The male has two long A MALE BHINOOEBOS BEETLE. horns, one extending forward from the head and the other from the thorax, from which fact it derives its |)opular name. The female resembles the male, but lacks the horns. It is pale bluish gray in color and the wing-veins are marked with darker irregular spots. The egg is an eighth of an inch in length and is laid in rich earth or decaying trunks of old trees of several the unsightly area in the forehead and prevent the deforming cicatrix that would otherwise re- sult. See AuTOPLASTY; Skin-Grafting. BHINS, raN, Jules L^on Dlitreuil de (1846- 94). A French geographer and explorer, born at Saint Etienne. He took part as a midshipman of naval volunteers in the expedition to Mexico and was an ensign during the Franco-Prussian War. From 1871 to 1876 he was captain of a foreign-going ship, in 1870-77 commanded the Scorpion of the King of Annam's navy, and in 1882 was Enj'ptian correspondent of the Temps. From 1891 to 1894 he explored Chinese Turkes- tan (Eastern Turkestan), and the most inacces- sible and least-known regions of Northern and Western Tibet. He was murdered by natives at a small town of Eastern Tibet. His publications include Le royaume d'Annnm (1879), Carte de VIndo-China orientate (1881), Leve du eovrs de I'Ogoone (1884), and L'Asie centrale (1889). The results of his last Journey were edited by his assistant. Grenard, Mission scientifique dans la Haute-Asie (3 vols., 1897-98). BHINTHOU, rin'thon (Lat., from Gk. 'PM(Dv). A Greek comic poet of Tarentum who lived about B.C. 300. He was the first to develop in a written form and to introduce into Greek literature the so-called Hilarotragoedia ('IXapo- varieties. The insect in all stages has a very Tpa7({)5l,, rhis. nose -}- Sipim, derma, skin). A small frog (Rhinodcrma Darwini) of Chile, remarkable for the tragic myths were treated in the spirit and style of comedy. He is frequently quoted by Cicero and Var'ro, and by Athcnipus, Hesyehius, and other Greek writers! but of his 38 dramas only insignificant fragments are extant. Con- sult Volker, Rhinthonis Fragmenta (Halle, 1887). BHIZOCABPE.ffi. See Paleobotany. f t