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PLATE XIIL 



LUCANUS CERVUS, 



Stag Beetle, 

 coleoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, comprefled, pe&inato-fiffile. Maxillae 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 infect we pofiefs, but its 

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

 inhabit hot countries or woodlands, as inftanced in the Scarabcsus 

 Hercules^ &c. 



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