nephthys

[An Egyptian godde , the wife of Typhon ] Zool.: Hairy-bait; a genus of Nereidæ (q. v.). něp-I-dæ, s. pl. [Lat.nep(a); fem. adj. pl. suff. ide.] Entom.: Water-scorpions; a family of Hydro cores (q.v.. Ocelli wanting, antenne three or four-jointed; body flat above, elliptical; hemelytra with a distinct membrane; rostrum three-jointed. The fore-legs raptorial, the rest simple, fringed, or flattened, used as swimming organs. All are aquatic and insectivorous. Chief genera, Nepa, Ranatra, Naucoris, Be los tom a, and Diplonychus. në plüs ül-tra, phr. (Lat.=no more beyond.] The furthest point in anything po ible to be reached.