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LABKHANA 423 LARVA be more species than one, extends all through Europe to the Himalayas and China. The name lark is given in the United States to ihe Alauda carnuta, the horned lark or shore lark, and in Aus- tralia to Marifra horsfieldii, or the bush lark. The tit-lark belongs to the family Motacillidie. LABKHANA (lar-ka'na), the capital of a district called "the Eden of Smd," situated 150 miles N. of Haidarabad; has manufactures of silk and cotton cloth, and a great cotton market. LABKSPTJB (Delphinium), a showy and popular genus of garden flowers of the natural order Raminculaceae, natives of the temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and comprising both annual and perennial species. The well-kno%vn rocket larkspur (D. Ajacis), a native of Switzerland, and the branch- ing larkspur (D. consolida), a native of most parts of Europe, doubtfully so of Great Britain, are familiar examples of the annual species; and Barlow's lark- spur (D. Barlowii) and the great-flow- ered larkspur (D. grandifiorutn) are not unfrequent examples of the perennial species. D. glaciale is one of the most distinctively alpine plants in the world. D. Staphisagria, corrupted to stavesacre, yields an alkaloid extract from its seeds, named Delphine, which is highly poison- ous, LABKSVILLE, a borough of Penn- sylvania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Susquehanna River, and is the center of an important coal mining district. Pop. (1910) 9,288; (1920) 9,438. LABNAKA (ancient Citium), the chief port of Cyprus. Even if Citium be not the Chittim of the Old Testament, it is certain that the King of Citium paid tribute to the Assyrian Sargon in 707 B. c, as appears from a cuneiform in- scription on a bas-relief dug up at Lar- naka in 1846, and now in the museum at Berlin. Carobs, or locust beans, cotton, and grain are exported. A most inter- esting fair called kataklusmos , held every year 50 days after the Greek Eas- ter, is traditionally supposed to be the anniversary of the birth of Aphrodite, and is attended by Orthodox Christian Cjrpriots from all parts of the island. LABNED, lOSEPHITS NELSON, au- thor; born in Chatham, Ont., May 11, 1836; received a public school education; was on the editorial staff of the Buffalo "Express" in 1859-1872, and superin- tendent of the Buffalo Library in 1877- 1897. He is the author of "Talks About Labor" (1877) ; "History for Ready Reference" (5 vols. 1895, 6th Vol. 1901)": and "History of England for Schools" (1900); "Library of American History" (1902) ; "Books, Culture and Character" (1906). Died 1913. LA BOCHEFOUCAULD (rosh-fb- ko'), FBANgOIS DUKE DE, PEINCE DE MABSILLAC, a French courtier and man of letters in the reign of Louis XIV.; born in Paris, France, Sept. 15, 1613. He acted a conspicuous part in the civil war of the Fronde, but he is chiefly remembered as the writer of "Re- flections and Maxims." Its distinctive characteristic is that hard, worldly wis- dom which finds selfishness at the bottom of everything. He also wrote "Memoirs of the Regency of Anne of Austria." He died in Paris, March 17, 1680. LA BOCHELLE (la-ro-shel'), a sea- port of France, on an islet of the Bay of Biscay, formed by the islands Re and Oleron. The inner harbor has two basins, in which ships of any size may remain afloat. The public buildings most worthy of notice are the arsenal, the palace, the town hall, the cathedral, and the great clock tower, remnant of the ancient fortifications. Pop. about 36,000. By the marriage of Eleanor of Guienne with Henry Plantagenet, after- ward Henry II., May 18, 1152, this town came into the hands of the English, and was captured by Louis VIII. in 1224. In 1360 it was ceded to England, but was recovered by Bertrand du Guesclin in 1372. The Huguenots held it from 1557 to Oct. 28, 1628, when it surrendered to Louis XIII. They had sustained a siege from December, 1572 to 1573, when peace was made. It was again fortified by Vauban in the reign of Louis XIV. An attempt made by the English, in 1809, to destroy the French fleet here was un- successful. LABOUSSE, PIEBBE (lii-ros'), a French lexicographer; born in Toucy, Oct. 23, 1817. For several yeai's he com- piled valuable educational text-books. In 1864 appeared the first volume of his "Great Universal Dictionary of the Nine- teenth Century" (completed 1876, 15 vols, with supplementary volumes 1878 and 1887). He also published two smaller works of the same class, the "New Illustrated Dictionary" and "Com- plete Illustrated Dictionary." He died Jan. 3, 1875. LABTITTS, TITUS FLAVIUS (lar'- shi-us), the first appointed dictator at Rome, in 498 B. c. LABVA, or LABV-ffi, the first con- dition of an insect on its issuing from the egg, when it is usually in the form of a grub, caterpillar, or maggot. The