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Asparagus Beetle ♦ 
This is a very beautiful minute infefl, found 
upon that plant when in feed: in forne places it in¬ 
jutes the plants exceedingly, 
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There are many more species. 
GENUS __LUCANUS STAG BEETLE. 
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This infeft, the large ft of any in this country, 
has two large moveable maxillae (jaws) which have 
the appearance of ilags horns: the French call it 
etrf volant . 
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It is found upon the oak* 
The jaws are fometimes as red as coral, the female 
has them fhorter. 
A fecond fpecies is fmaller, and refembles the fe¬ 
male. 
The lucani feed upon the liquor which oozes from 
oaks '; their larvae lodge under the bark, and in the 
hollow of old trees which they eat into, and reduce 
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to powder, and there turn to chryfalids. 
The po.rrecled.jaws of the in feci are u fed in {trip¬ 
ping the bark and fixing themfelyeS.whilfl they fuck. 
The great flag pinches with his horns,-* and fa-id 
to hold by a fmall branch, and twirl himfelf round, 
probably to procure the juice, upon which he feeds, 
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