462 THL: IXSECT WOKLD. 



Stag beetles. These Coleoptera are of great size, and their hotiX 

 is armed with enormous robust mandibles, which give them a' 



Fig. 443. Scarafoajus chorinseu?. 



ferocious air, which their inoffensive habits do not in any way 

 justify. They live in half- rotten trees, whose destruction they 



Fig. 444. Scarabams anubis (male). 



accelerate. Their mandibles, of such prodigious size only in the 

 male, are of more inconvenience to them than they are of use, as 

 they impede their flight. Their strength enables them to raise 

 considerable weights, but they make no other use of them than to 

 show their strength, which is enormous. They do not attack other 

 insects, and live only on vegetable juicep. 



