Bidental Reptiles
in palæonname given by Andrew tology, the Geddes Bain, surveyor of military roads in South Africa, to certain notable reptiles found there about 500 miles E. of Cape Town. The name was given because of their possessing two long, curved and sharp-pointed tusks.
BIDPAI (bid'pi), or PILPAI, the reputed author of a very ancient and popular collection of Eastern fables. The original source of these stories is the old Indian collection of fables called "Panchatantra," which acquired its present form under Buddhist influences not earlier than the 2d century B. C. It was afterward spread over all India and handed down from age to age in various more or less different versions. An abridgment of this collection is known as the "Hitopadesa." The first English translation was published in 1570.
BIEDA (bē'da), the modern name of the ancient Blera, a town in Italy. It is noted for its extensive Etruscan necropolis of rock-hewn tombs, which are built in several terraces. These tombs are interesting from their imitation of dwellings.
BIELA BIELA (bē'la), WILHELM, BARON VON, an Austrian army officer, born in Roslau, Prussia, March 19, 1782; known from his discovery of the comet bearing his name. He died in Venice, Feb. 18, 1856.