Lucanus. COLEOPTERA. 29 



Genus II. Lucanus the Stag-Beetle* 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 559. 



The antennas of the Lucanus end or 

 terminate in a club or knob, but of a differ- 

 ent nature from that of the preceeding ge- 

 nus, the club being as it were compreffed, 

 or flattened on one fide, which part thus 

 comprefled, is divided into fhort plates or 

 laminae, refembling the teeth of a comb. 



The Maxilla^ or Jaws, are ftrong, por- 

 redtcd or advanced before the head, and are 

 armed with teeth. 



Schasffer and Geoffroy have given to this ge- 

 nus the name of Platycerus, without changing a- 

 ny of its charadfceriftics. Geoffroy, however, has 

 divided it into two families, from the form of the 

 antenna? \ the firft family contains fuch as have 

 the antennas bent in the middle, and forming a 

 kind of elbow or angle from the end of the firft 

 articulation, which, in this divifion, is as long 

 as all the others : The fecond comprehends thofe 

 whofe antennas are ftraight, or extended, with 

 the firft articulation of the fame length as the 

 others. 



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