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PLATE XIIL 



LUCANUS CERVUS. 



Stag BeetlEo 

 coleoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, compreffed, pe(a:inato-fiflile. MaxUlas extended 

 fo as to refemble horns. Five joints in each foot. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Head and Thorax black. Shells dark brown. Horns refembling 

 thofe of a Stag, forked at the end, a fmall branch near the middle on 

 the infide, moveable. Shells plain. 



The Stag-Beetle is the largeft coleopterous infe£l: we poflefs, but its 

 Jize is infignificant, when compared with thofe of the fame kind that 

 inhabit hot countries or woodlands, as inflanced in the Scarabaus 

 Hercules, &c. 



If 



