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THE INSECT WORLD. 



Fig. 448 represents the Stag Beetle {Lucamis cervus) ; Fig. 449, 

 an exotic species, the Lucaniis {Homodenis) Mellyi, from the Gaboon ; 



Fig. 



-Stag Beetle {Lucanus cennts). 



Fig. 449. — Lucanus (Homoderus) Mellyi.) 



Fig. 450 the Lucanus bellicosus ; and Fig. 451 another exotic specied 

 from Celebes, Do?'ais Titan. 



The Syfidesus cor?iutus (Fig. 452) of Tasmania, and the Ckiasog 

 nathus Graniii, from the coast of ChiH (Fig. 453), of a beautifu 

 golden green, shot with copper, belong to genera akin to Lucanus. 



We arrive now at the tribe of Silphaks, which are still mor( 

 useful to man than the Dung Beetles (Scarabceidcf), since many 

 them disencumber the soil of the carcases of animals in a state 



