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 PLATE CCLXIV^ 



F I G I. 



LUCANUS PARALELEPIPEDUS- 



Small black Stag Beetle, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas terminate in a club or knob comprefled on one fide, and 

 divided into laminae or teeth. Maxillse or jaws, ftrong, porredled 

 before the head, and armed with teeth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Black : body deprefled. Maxillas furniflied with a large elevated 

 tooth on the interior lide. 



LuCANUs Paralelepipedus: mandibuHs dente laterali elevato, 



corpore depreflb. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 561. 6. Fab, 



Ent. SyJi. T, 1. p. 2. 239. ii. 

 Phtycertis nlger, elytris Isvibus, capitis pundlo duplici prominente, 



Geoff. Inf. I. 62. 3. 



Dcgeer. Inf. 4. tab. 1 2. fig. 9. 



Schieff. Icon. tab. 63. fig. 7.) 



Elem, tab. loi. fig. i. 



Three 



