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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: related species which works sadhavoc with insect collections, unless these are subjected several times a year to the poisonous fumes of carbondisulphide (Fig. 47). The stag beetles (Lucanidee2) have received their com-mon branched mandibles to the antlers of astag. The plates of the club-shapedantenna cannot be brought compactlytogether, as in the next family. The adultbeetles live on the sap of trees, and thelarvre bore into the wood of the roots andtrunk. The common large stag-beetle,which is often attracted into our houses bylamplight, is Lucanus dama. In the Souththe giant stag-beetle {Lucanus elepJians) isfound, with mandibles which, in the case ofthe male, are more than three-fourths the length of the body. Closely allied to the last is the great family of lamelli-corn3 beetles, in which the ends of the antennae bear flat, 1 Sep/j.r)<rrr)s (5fy/ia, skin; e, to gnaw), a worm which destroys pelts. 2 From lucus, grove. 3 lamella, a small plate or leaf ; cornu, horn. E

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 48.—Dorcus, a stag - beetle.Nat. size. Photo.by W. H. C. P. 50 ZOOLOGY

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