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This species burrows in cow-dung and under the earth, digging de e | 
holes; and is found plentiful on heaths and commons during -Ap^, 
and May. Mr. Marsham in his 1 Zntomologia Britannica has describ 
80 species of Scarabai found ill this country. 
Genus 2. Lucanus. 
Antenna clavated; dub perfoliate: maxilla prominent and dentate^' 
body oblong : anterior tibia dentated. . . 
Sp. 1. L. Cervus, the Stag-beetle. With a scutellum; the maxib’ 
projecting, bifurcated at the apex, with many teeth on the intern* 1 
edge. {Pi. i. fig. 3.) J 
This is the largest of the British Coleoptera ; the larva is white, a® 
lives on putrid wood, particularly oak; its head and feet are of a ru* 
colour. The perfect insect varies in size and colour; in general it. 
dark brown or blackish; the jaws are very large, about one third 0 
the length of the whole insect, and have a distant resemblance to “1° 
horns of a stag; Mr. Marsham’s therms is only the female of tb® 
species. , 
Sp. 2. B. parallelipipedtts is considerably smaller, and maybe obtain 01 
in Jims and July in the neighbourhood of willows. 
Ohs. L. caraboidcs has not yet occurred in Britain, at least no British 
specimen is known. 
Genus 3. Dmmestes. 
Antenna clavated; the club perfoliated {FI. I. fig. 4. a.); the three t° r ' 
minating articulations larger than the rest: thorax convex, win 1 
scarcely any margin : head inflected, and partly hid under the thora- 
The larvae of the insects of this genus feed on decayed animal siw 
stances, and are exceedingly injurious to the meat in larders, skin 51 
furs, and books. 
Sp. 1. D.mnrinus. Oblong; downy clouded with black and white; abd°' 
men covered with fine white down or hair. 
Inhabits Europe; and may frequently be found in the dead moles hut’! 
up on the hedges by countrymen. (PI. 1 .fig. 4.) 
Sp. 2. I). Scolj/tus. Elytra truncate, blackish and striate : abdomen'' 0 ' 
tuse: front downy and of an ash colour. {PL 1 .fig. 5.) 
The insects of this genus are very prolific ; both the lame and p rr ' 
feet insect eat the roots and wood of trees, and are .sometimes very ^ 
structive to woods. The following account, from Mr. Kirby's Introduce 0 
to Entomology, of Bostri/clms Typography Fabr.,will further illustr» l ‘ 
the habits and manners of this genus: “ This insect in its preparatoo 
State feeds upon the soft inner bark only : but it attacks this imports' 1 
part in such vast numbers, 80,000 being sometimes found in a sing 
