THE STAG-BEETLE. 
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between it and tTie body, is narrower than either, and 
marginated around. The elytra of this beetle are very 
plain, being unadorned with either breaks or lines. The 
colour of the whole animal is uniformly of a deep 
brown. 
The refidence of thefe animals is commonly the oak ; 
in fome parts of the country they are but rarely to be 
met with ; and though the largeft of all the coleopterous 
in this part of the world, they are much fmaller than 
thofe of the fame fpecies, in countries where woods are 
more extenfive, and the climate is warmer. In thefe 
they acquire an amazing flrength and vigour ; and the 
maxillae, whofe ordinary office is to tear the bark of 
trees, are occafionally converted into offenfive weapons, 
which are carefully avoided by fuch as have experienced 
the feverity of their bite. 
Ifbe parallel'. piped Beetle 
Tee body of this fpccies is black ; tiie -horns fmaller 
than thofe of the preceding, which in other refpe&s it 
nearly refembles, and the body is oblong, and of that 
fhape exprefled by the Lhuucan name, which we have 
borrowed f. It frequents the meadow grounds, and its 
Z z 3 habits 
* Lucanus parallclipipedus, I.in. Syft Ecirabxus plafyc'cros, Rai. 
■j- Rs.i InfciSt. p. 7J. 
