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THE INSECT WORLD. 



Fig. 448 represents the Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) ; Fig. 449, 

 an exotic species, the Lucanus (Homoderus) Mellyi, from the Gaboon ; 



Fig. 448. Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus). 



Fig. 449. Lucanus (Homoderus) Mellyi. 



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

 from Celebes, Dorcus Titan. 



The Syndesus cornutus (Fig. 45 2) of Tasmania, and the Chiasog- 

 nathus Grantii, from the coast of Chili (Fig. 453), of a beautiful 

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



We arrive now at the tribe of Silphales, which are still more 

 useful to man than the Uung Beetles (Scarab<zida>), since many of 

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



