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" 'The Slime Worm has earned its place in the Nest,' said the other. 'How does it live?' I asked 'It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle.' 'What does the Golden Beetle kill?' I asked. 'Priest-Kings,' said the second slave." Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 104 - 105 ~¤~
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"....two flaming, luminous eyes. The Golden Beatle was not nearly as tall as a Priest-King, but it was probably considerably heavier. It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincerlike extension that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body.They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaws. Its antennae, unlike those of the Priest-Kings, were very short. They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair. Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creatures head over its domed golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it. The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell. The creature's head was even now withdrawn beneath the shell but its eyes were clearly visible and of course the extensions of its jaws. I knew the thing before me could slay Priest-Kings." Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, page 180 ~¤~
"The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of the Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost as if hypnotized, to the jaws of the Beetle, who then penetrates their body with its hollow, pincerlike jaws and drains its body of fluid." Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, page 257 ~¤~
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