STAG-BEETLE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae club-shaped, compressed on one side, and divided 
into short plates or laminae resembling the teeth of a 
comb. 
Jaws strong, projecting from the head, and armed with 
teeth. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lucanus Cervus. L. scutellatus : maxillis exsertis apice bifur- 
catis latere unidentatis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1. p. 1588. 
With an escutcheon : each horn has a bifur- 
cated apex and a single tooth turning in- 
wards. 
Lucanus mandibulis exsertis unidentatis apice 
bifurcatis, labio deflexo : ruga transversali 
clavata. Fair. Ins. 1. p. 1. no. 2. 
Platycerus fuscus, &c. Geoff. Ins. 1. p. <5l. 
no. l . pi. 1 . f. 1 . 
Cervus volans. Mouff. Ins. 148. 
Stag-beetle. . . Merian. Eur. pi. 168. Schceff. Icon. pi. 133. 
f. 1. 
Stag-chaffer. Shaw Gen. Zool. 6. p. 27- 
pi. 6. 
This is the largest of our British insects, and is 
found in the neighbourhood of oak-trees, feeding 
upon the honey dew which so frequently moistens 
