ASH WEDNESDAY

Tlie first day in Lent, called in the l.alin church dies cinerum, the day of ashes; it being customary on that day for penitents to appear in church clothed lit sackcloth, upon which occasion ashes were sprinkled upon them. ASI'1,1 S. A Linna?an genus of dipterous insects, in which the mouth is furnished with a horny, projecting, straight,tennastwo-valved filiform, approximate,sucker, and of two gibbous articulations;at the ba's*body,an oblong and conical in shape. The insects of this genus prey on other insects, especially those of the dipterous and tepid opter ous orders. [s. 108]