Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XLI. What They Intimate by Pourtraying a Blind Beetle
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man who has caught a fever from a stroke of the sun, and died in consequence, they portray a BLIND BEETLE; for this creature dies after it has been blinded by the sun.