BEMBATOOXA, BAY OF, a safe and commodious bay on the n.w. coast of Mada gascar, in lat. 10' s., and long. 40' e. Prime bullocks are sold here for less than 104. each, and are bought extensively by agents of the French government, who have them driven to fort Dauphin, on Antongil bay, on the opposite of the island, where they are killed and cured for the use of the French navy, and for colonial consumption. ltiee is also sold very cheap at Bembatooka. Majunga, on the n. side of the bay, is an important town, Bembatooka being but a village.
a family of hymenopterous insects of the division in which the females are furnished with stings, Along with sphegithv (q.v.), and other nearly allied families, they receive the popular name oesand-wasps. They very much resemble bees or wasps in general appearance. They are natives of the warmer parts of the world. Some of them are remarkable for the odor of ro 's which thy emit. The females make burrows in sandy banks, in each of which they deposit an egg, and along with it the bodies of a few flies as food for the larva. The 13. fly very rapidly, and with a loud buzzing noise. rostrata is common in the s. of Europe.
MOO, TtErno, one of the most celebrated Italian scholars of the 16th c., was IL in Venice, May 20, 1470; having stitched at Padua and Ferrara. he early devoted WM tgelf to polite literature. He edited the Italian poems of Tetrarch, printed by Aldus, in 1501, and the Terzerime of Dante, 1502. In 1506. he proceeded to the court of Urbino.
where he resided until 1512, when lie went to Rome, where he was made secretary to pope Leo X. On the death of that pope, B. returned to Padua. where h3 became is liberal patron of literature and the arts, as well as a fertile writer himself. In 1529, he accepted the office of historiographer to the republie of Venice, and was also appointed keeper of St. Mark's library. In 1530. a, who had only taken the minor ecclesiastical orders, was unexpectedly presented with -a cardinal's hat by pope Paul III., who after wards appointed him to the dioceses of Gabble and Bergamo. Ile died Jan. 18. 1547. B. united in its character all that is amiable. He was the restorer of good style in both Latin and Italian literature. His taste is said to have been so fastidious with regard to style, that ho subjected each of his own writings to forty revisions previous to publica tion. Some of his writings are marred by the licentiousness time, Among his works may be mentioned the Rerun% Trenetiearum lain XIL (Venice, 1551), of which he published an Italian edition (Venice, 1552); his Prose. dialogues in which are given the rules of the Tuscan dialect; Gli Asolani, a series of disputations on love, etc.; Rime, a collection of sonnets and canzonets; his letters, Italian and Latin; and the work, De Virnilii (Mire et Terentli Fabulis, Ilia collected works were published at Venice, in 4 vols.. 1729.