Scapular
or SCAPULARY, a dress originally worn over their other dress by the monks when at manual labor, but now forming part of the habit of the older religious orders; also a miniature copy of a monk's scapular made of two pieces of cloth, connected by strings, worn by Ro- SCARLATTI man Catholics from motives of devotion.
There are four other scapulars in use: that of the Trinity, of white linen with a red cross; the Servite scapular of the Seven Dolors, of black stuff; that of the Immaculate Conception, of of light blue woolen, and the Red scapular, in commemoration of the Passion. In ornithology in the plural, a series of feathers springing from the base of the humerus, and continued in a longitudinal stripe so as to cover the last series of the quill feathers, with which they are often confounded. In surgery, a bandage for the shoulder blade.
SCARABÆUS, in entomology, a genus of Copridæ, and the typical one of Scarabæidæ. The semicircular clypeus is divided by sharp notches into a series of triangular teeth; the forelegs are retracted. About 70 species are known, all from the Old World. S. acer, formerly Ateuchus sacer, is the sacred beetle of the Egyptians, often represented on Egyptian monuments, though Latreille thought it was S. egyptiorum, a golden green species. Both deposit their eggs in pellets of dung, which they roll with their hind legs into a hole dug for its reception.