LUC 



LUC 



Bison. Jaws exferted, many-toodied ; thorax and fticlls 

 edged with red. Inhabiis America. Edge of the thorax 

 rufous, with a black line. 



Gazella. Jaws two-toothed within ; body black ; 

 (hells edged with teltaceous. Inhabits Siani. The jaws 

 are fhort ; head with a fmall plate before the eyes ; hind 

 edge of the thorax notched on each fide ; flianks angular, 

 grooved. 



Lama. Jaws exferted, three-toothed, {horter than the 

 head; thorax angular. Inhabits India. 



SwTLRAi.i.s. Jaws exferted, thrcc-toothed at tlie bafe 

 within ; body teftac^ous, with a dorfal black line ; the head 

 IS teftaceons, with a bfack margin and dorfal line, which is 

 bind at the tip; thorax teftaceous, with a black dorfal line 

 and fpot each fide at the bafe. 



CAfilN'ATU.s Depreffed ; thorax unarmed, fhortcr than 

 the head, the hinder angles excavated ; abdomen very fliort ; 

 breafl: ending behind in an acute angle. Inhabits India. 



* Paralleli.epipedus. Jaws with a lateral elevated 

 tooth within ; body depreffed. It inhabits Europe, Body 

 black, very fmall : female with a double prominent dot on 

 the head. 



Tene75R0ide.s. Jaws lunate, one-toothed ; bo<!y black ; 

 thorax margined ; fliells fubllriate. Inhabits Ruffia. Ab- 

 domen pitchy. 



Cacuroides. J^s incurved, with a thick differently 

 fliaped tooth within ; {hells pun£l«red, (lightly downy ; 

 thorax a little grooved ; (hanks ferrate. It inhabits Van 

 Diemen's land. 



* Caraboide.s. Blueifh ; jaws lunate; thorax mar- 

 gmed : varies in being greeHifh, with reddith legs and ab- 

 domen. Inhabits Europe. 



PiCEUS. Black, fmooth, ftriate ; antennae, abdomen, and 

 legs pitchy. Inhabits Sweden. 



Capensis. Exfeutellate, black; body depreffed ; thorax 

 ftriate. Found in Chili, South America. 



PiLMUs. Exfeutellate, black ; (hells vifith puntlured 

 grooves. Inhabits the Cape. ■ 



Taeandus. Scutellate, black, very fmooth ; jaws ex- 

 ferted, three-toothed_ at the tip, two-toothed on the inner 

 fide. Inhabits Africa. 



Antilope. Jaws exferted, edged on the inner fide, the 

 upper margin two-toothed, but the lower five-toothed ; 

 body brown, nearly fmooth. Found in different parts of 

 Africa. 



BuB.iLUS. Black ; jaws bifid ; one part projefting, fnb- 

 lunate, three-toothed within ; the other larger, defletted, 

 arched entire. Inhabits Georgia. 



In'terruptus. Antennae arched ; body black, with a 

 recumbent fpine on the crown ; thorax and abdomen remote ; 

 thorax and (hells ciliat^, with rufous. Inhabits America 

 and the Welt India iflands, under rotten fugar-canes. This 

 is the pafFalus interruptus of Fabricius. 



Den'tatus. Antennae arched ; head many-tootheJ ; 

 thorax punftured at the fides ; thorax and abdomen remote. 

 Found m the ifland of Guadaloupe. This is the paffalus 

 dentatus of Fabricius. 



MiNUTUS. Antennz arched; tliorax and abdomen re- 

 mote, ferruginous ; (hells teftaceous. This is the palTalus 

 minutus of Fabricius, and is found in the South American 

 iflands. The body is much depreffed, hardly larger than a 

 loafe ; jaws exferted, (hort, unarmed, pointed ; (liells hardly 

 flriate. 



Dr. Shaw mentions a highly elegant fpecies, that has 

 lately been difcovered in New Holland, which difiers from 

 the reft in being entirely of a beautiful golden green colour, 

 with flioit, fliarp-pointcd, denticulated jaws of a brilliant 



Vol. XXI. 



copper colour. The whole length of tlie infecl ia rather 

 more than an inch. Gmelin's Linn. Shaw's Zoology. 

 Donovan. 



LUCAR, am-^^ng the Romans, an appellation givca to 

 the money expended upon plays and public (howB. 



LucAK Je Barinmeda, St., in Gcagraphy, a decayed fea- 

 port town of Spain, in the province of Seville, at the mouth 

 of the Guadalquivir, the key of Seville, with a good har- 

 bour, but difficult of accefs on account of a rock in the 

 water. A whole fleet may lie fecnrely in tha road. Thr chief 

 article of its trade is fait ; 13 miles N. of Cadiz. N. lat. 

 36 4^'. W. long. 6- 27'. 



LuCAK de Guadiana, St., a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Seville, fituated on the Guadiana, on the contines 

 of Portugal, and defended by towers and baftions. The 

 tide flows up to the town, fo as to bring fmall veffels into its 

 harbour; 64 miles W. of Seville. N. lat. 37'^ 30'. W. 

 long. 7= 25'. 



LucAR le Mayor, St., a town of Spam, in the province 

 of Seville, on the Guadiamur ; 10 miles W. of Seville. 



LUC ARIA, an ancient feaft celebrated by the Romans. 

 Sext. Pompeius obfcrve.-!, that the lucaria were folemnized 

 in the woods, where the Romans, defeated and purfued by 

 the Gauls, retired, and concealed themfelves. The word, 

 according to Feftus and Sext. Pompeius, comes ircmlucus, 

 a grove or "Wood. Varro derives it from /ar^, the ablative of 

 the word lux, light and lilcrty. But the former etymology 

 feems the more natural. 



It was held in the month of July, in memory of the 

 afylum they found m the wood, which was between the 

 Tybei* and the road called Via Salaria. 



LUCAS, TuDENSis, in Biography, a Spanifh writer and 

 prelate, who flouriflied in the thirteenth century, was firft a 

 deacon in the church, and afterwards bifhop of Tny, a city 

 of Gallicia, whence he has his furname. He travelled into 

 feveral parts of the eaft and other countries, for the purpofe 

 of obtaining information concerning the rehgion and cere- 

 monies of different nations; and was raifed to his bifhopric 

 by pope Gregory IX. His principal work was " A Trea- 

 tife againft the Albigenfes." He w&i author, likewife, of 

 " The Life of St. Ifidure of Seville ;" and he made con- 

 fiderable additions to " The Chronicle of St. Ifidore." 

 Gen. Biog. 



Lucas, Francis, a learned divine, who flourifhed in the 

 fevcnteenth century, was a native of Bruges, was educated 

 at Louvain, attained to the degree of dodlor, and was 

 made dean of the church of St. Omer's. He died in 1619. 

 He was profoundly (liilled m the Greek, and in all the ori- 

 ental languages ; and was an expert judicious critic. He 

 wa.s the author of " Notationes in facra Bibha, quibus 

 variantia difcrepantibus Loca, Exemplaribus fummo Studio 

 difcutiuntur," 4to., 1580 ; " Commentaria in Evangel." 

 in J vols., folio ; " Notae ad varias Ledliones in Evangel. ;" 

 " Concordantice Lutinorum Bibliorum .y ulgatae Editionis," 

 and of many other learned works. 



Lucas, P.mjl, a celebrated traveller, was born at Rouen 

 m 1664. He felt an early inclination to travel into foreign 

 countries, which he gratified by feveral tours through the 

 Levant, Egypt, Turkey, and other parts. He brought 

 back a rich treafure of medals and other curiofities for the 

 king's cabinet, who ordered him to draw up an account of 

 his travels, and who, jn 1714, nominated him one of his 

 antiquaries. He was afterwards employed by the duchefs 

 of Burgundy. In 1723 he took another voyage to the 

 Levant, by order of Lewis XV., and collected many cu- 

 rious and valuable manufcripts and medals. From this 

 period to 1736 he lived a life of repofe; but in the laft 

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