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the name of La Grande Biche, and tells us he has frequently feeij 

 both fexes of this infe6t coupled together*. He obferves, however^ 

 that he has never feen the two fexes of the long-horned kind in the 

 fame ftate, a circumftance that in our mind rather weakens than con- 

 firms the ftrength of his former remark. Neither does Geoffroy take 

 notice of any difference of appearance between the male and female 

 of his Grand Biche, which leaves us in further doubt. If, notwith- 

 Handing, we can rely upon this writer, one difputed fa6t may be col- 

 lected from the remit of his remarks, namely, that there are both 

 males and females of the Short-horned Stag Beetle. 



This point attained, our attention is next directed to difcover the 

 true female of Cervus Lucanus ; and this, if we are not miftaken, has 

 been noticed only by Mr. Marfham. This gentleman, as it appears 

 from the Entomologia Britannica, was fo fortunate as to take the 

 two fexes together, fome years ago. The female is defcribed as 

 being in no refpect different from the male, except in fize, which 

 is fmaller; the horns are as large in proportion, they are befet with 

 about feven nearly equal and approximate teeth, and have not one 

 larger and remote from the reft. The difcovery of the female of 

 the Lucanus Cervus was a deniable circumftance ; not merely as 

 being the means of ascertaining the hiftory of tHt infect, but as 

 adding a further confirmation to the obfervations of Geoffroy, with 

 regard to the Short-horned Stag, which they feem to us to require -f-. 

 We have no doubt, that Geoffroy difcovered both fexes of the Grande 

 Biche, but it would have been more fatisfactory had he been 

 acquainted with the true female of the Cervus Lucanus. We need 



* " Cette animal (La Grande Biche) refemble beadcoup au precedent; quelques 

 performes meuie out cru qu'il n'en differoit que par la i'exe, prenant celui-ci pour la 

 femelle, et le cerf-volant pour la male : mais quoiquils fe refembleat beaucoup pour 

 la forme, la grandeur, et la couleuiy il eft prouferent pas feulement par le i'exe, 

 ay ant rencontre" pluficurs fois des biches accoupltcs tnjhnblc, et jamais avec des cerfs 

 volans. 



• t " Etnosetiam GcofTroyii fententiam comprobaraus, cornutos enim copula conjuncTus 

 cepinius." Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 48. n, "2. t 



only 



