ing summer: it then emerges from its tomb, arid after enjoying the pleasure of an improved existence for some time, lays its eggs in the ground, and dies.

The principal species of the second genus, Lucanus, is the Stag-Beetle, which is somc times two inches and a half long, from the tip of the jaws to the end of the body. The general colour is a deep chesriut; but the jaws are sometimes as red as coral: those of the female are much shorter. There is a species of a smaller size, and one lately discovered in New Holland, of a beautiful golden green, with short toothed jaws, of a brilliant copper colours The foreign species of this genus, are chiefly natives of America.

You must search for the larva of the Stag
beetle in the hollows of oaks, where they
shelter themselves beneath the bark, and feed
on the softest parts of the decayed wood. It is
supposed, that it does not attain its full size in
less than five years, when, by frequently turn
ing itself; and moistening its skin with its glues
tinous saliva, it forms a smooth, oval hollow
in the earth, in which it lies; after this, it
remains about a month in a state of torpid
tranquillity, slips off its skin, and becomes a
chrysalis. The ball of earth thus formed, is
larger than a hen's egg, rough on the outside,
but