BOST RYC HOIDEA  . —This tribe is distinguished from the Malacoderma and allied See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups by the mesothoracic epimera not bounding the coxal cavities of the intermediate legs . The downwardly directed See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head is covered by the pronotum, and the three terminal antennal segments See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a distinct See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club . To this See also:

• GROUP

group belong the Bostrychidae and Ptinidae, well known (especially the latter See also:

• FAMILY

family) for their ravages in old See also:

• TIMBER

timber . The larvae are stout and soft-skinned, with See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short legs in correlation with their burrowing See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit . The noises made by some Ptinidae (Anobium) tapping on the walls of their burrows with their mandibles give rise to the See also:

• DEATH

death tick " that has for See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long alarmed the superstitious .