scolstert

See scoldster. Scolytidæ Scolytidæ (sko-lit'i-de), (skō-lit'i-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Kirby, 1837), Coleoptera, typified by the genus Scolytus, containing bark and wood-boring beetles of small size, having the pygidium sur surrounded at the edge by the elytra, and the tibiæ usually serrate, the head not rostrate, the maxillæ with one lobe, and the antenne short, claviform or perfoliate. In their larval state these insects do immense damage to forest and fruit-trees, under the bark of which they bore long galleries, as do the Bostrychidæ, with which they have been sometimes confounded. Their color is black or brown, and they are almost exclusively lignivorous in habit. Nearly 1,000 species have been described, of which 150 belong to temperate North America. Xyloborus dispar, the shot-borer or pin-borer, and Tomicus call i graph us, the fine-writing bark-beetle, are familiar examples. See Xylophaga, and cut under pin - borer. Scombridæ or soft dorsal, teeth on both palatines and vomer, and the corselet obsolete, as S. scombrus, S. pneuma toph or us, etc. This excludes the frigate-mackerels ( Auxis ), the Spanish mackerel ( Scomberomorus ), the horse-mackerels, bonitos, tunnies, etc. See mackerel1. Scomberesoces (skom-be-res'ō-sēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of Scomberesox.] Same as Scombe IMG:content-0323.jpg:[graphic] resocidæ.