Scarabæidæ (skarabeide)

pl. [NL. (Leach, 1817), females, and are often distinguished by horns upon the head or prothorax, or by better-developed antennæ, or by ture belong to this group, such as the May-beetles or modifications of the legs. Many noted pests to agriculJune-bugs and cockchafers of America and Europe, the Anisoplia a us triac a of the Ru ian wheat-fields, and the rose-chafer and fig-eater of the United States. Corresponding groups in former use are Scarabæida, Scarabæ ides, Scarabæina, and Scarabæites. See cuts under Her cules - beetle, Pelidnota, and Scarabæus. [ scar a scarabæidoid (skar-a-bē'i-doid), a . bæid + -oid .] Noting a stage of the larva (after the second molt) of those insects which undergo hyper metamorphosis, as the blister- beetles ( Meloidæ ). This stage succeeds the caraboid, and is followed by the ultimate stage of the second larva, after which comes the coarctate pupa. C. V. Riley. I would not scar that body, That virtuous, valiant body, nor deface it, To make the kingdom mine. Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 2. II. in trans . To become scarred; form a scar. scar2 (skär), n. [Also (Sc.) scaur ; ME.scarre , skerre , sker , an isolated rock in the sea, = Sw. skär = Dan. skjær (cf. OD. schaere ), a cliff, a rock; ef. Icel. skor , a rift in a rock; sker a = Sw. skära = Dan. skære , cut, shear: see shear1 , and cf. sharel , score , and shorel . Hence also skerry .] 1. A naked, detached rock.-2. A cliff; a precipitous bank; a bare and broken place on the side of a hill or mountain. Is it the roar of Teviot's tide That chafes against the scaur's red side? scarabæid. IMG:content-0241.png:[blocks in formation] scarabæoid, scarabeoid (skar-a-bē ́oid), a . and [ Scarabæus + -oid.] I. a. 1. Resem- bling a scarab; scarabæid; pertaining, related, or belonging to the Scarabæidæ .-2. Specifi- cally, scarabæidoid. C. V. Riley. II. n. A carved scarab but remotely resem- Scott , L. of L. M., i. 12. bling the natural insect; or, more usually, an mellicorn beetles, typical of the Sca rabæidæ, formerly equivalent to La mell i corni a, now restricted to about 70 species distributed through Africa and the warmer parts of Europe and Asia. They are coprophagous in habit, the adults rolling up balls of excrement in which the females lay their eggs. The sacred scarab of the Egyptians is S. sacer, found throughout the countries bordering on the Mediter natural size. ranean. It is probable Egyptian Scarabæus ( A teuch us pius), also that another species, S. lati coll is, was held in religious veneration by the Egyptians, as the scarab is sometimes figured by them with striate elytra, a character which pertains to this alone. Species of Ateu chus, as A. pius, were formerly included in this genus. 2. [l. c.; pl. scarabæi (-1).] Same as scarab, 3. scarabee (skar'a-bē), n. [Formerly also scar a bie; Such as you render the throne of majesty, the court, suspected and contemptible; you are scarabees that batten in her dung, and have no palats to taste her curious viands. Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, iv. 1. Up to my pitch no common judgment flies, I scorn all earthly dung-bred scarabies . Drayton, Idea, xxx i. (To the Critics.)