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Dynastidce, or (in some districts) Stag-beetles. They say the large, heavy-bodied Beetle in the West 

 Indies the Elephant-beetle (Dynastes Hercules) is the supposed operator seizes the branch between 



OXCIDERES VOMICOSUS. 



its two long horns (one projecting from the crown of the head and the other from the thorax), and 

 setting itself in rapid rotatory motion, continues until the branch is sawn through. But the horns or 

 jaws of these large Beetles are quite incapable of the work thus attributed to them ; and, in fact, the 



