ENTOMOPHAGA

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A tribe of Marsupial quadrupeds, characterized by having three kinds of teeth — viz. incisors, canines, and molares — in both jaws, and the intestinal canal provided with a moderate-sized coscum. The Opo ums (Didelphys), Bandicoots (1"urameits), and the genera Myrmecobius and Chceropus are a ociated to form this group; and feed principally, though not exclusively, on insects. [s. 420]