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THE INSECT WORLD. 



Fig. 448 represents the Stag Beetle {Lncanus cenms) ; Fig. 4.19, 

 an exotic species, the Lucanus [Homoderus) Alellyi, from the Gaboon ; 



Fig. 448.— Stag Beetle {Lucatms cenms). 



Fig. 449. — Lucnnus (Hoinodenis) MellyL 



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

 from Celebes, Do rats Titan. 



The Syndesus coriudus (Fig. 452) of Tasmania, and the ChiasO' 

 gnathus Gfattfit, 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 Dung Beetles {Scarab(eides\ since many of 

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



