SCALE INSECTS

(family, Coccidae; Hemipter a), minute bugs, often injurious to fruit trees and plants; females are wingle and live beneath scale composed of exuded matter, cast |Skins, etc. Many secrete valuable commerc ial products, such as Indian white wax and lac, and the manna of Bible 1s probably the honeydew of Coccus, while the body Mediterranean another furnishes cochineal. prominen al. scientist and 1558), scholar; claimed to be_s. of Benedetto dell a Scala, of great Veronese family, put account of his own life not trust doctor at Agen, and engaged worthy; learned disputes with Erasm us and Cardan, translated cla ics, and wrote verse. Life, by Mager, 1880. Lat. hus Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), Josep s., the famous scholar, was firmly his of Scala connection, and in convinced 1594 pub. Scalagerae, to which Scioppius by 8. in. Confutatro stulti imae refuted fabulae; prof. at Leiden, 1593, Burd on is till death.