Therapon
in ichthyology, a genus of which are more or less marine, spread compressed, with scales of moderate size; readily recognized by the blackish longi- They are all of small size, and may be ornamented. tudinal bands with which the body is continued in high repute till recent times prepared by Andromachus of Crete, In Venice, Holland, France, and other physician to the Emperor Nero, which places it had to be prepared with certain solemnities in the presence of the magis: trates. It received its name from the belief that it was an antidote to the trates. It received its name from the treacle is a corruption of theriaca, and was first applied to a syrup, medicine, oι obtained in the preparation of sugar, and electuary, and then, from similarity of was first applied to a syrup, medicine, 01 known as molasses. obtained in the preparation of sugar, and or moderate-sized spiders, with the abappearance, to the uncrystallized residue domen generally large, as compared with the cephalothorax, and broadly ovate.
Fore legs usually two transverse rows. found among foliage, and sometimes conlly or moderate-sized spiders, with the abstruct irregular most numerous in temperate climates, These spiders are lar webs. The species are THERIDIIDÆ and the greater number belong to the Eastern Hemisphere.