續一切經音義 1.82

1.82

Root-eating and leaf-eating locusts (蟊螣: the first character has the fanqie 莫侯 [móu]. The second character has the fanqie 騰德 [tè]. They are all kinds of locusts. The Mao Commentary to the Book of Odes says: "Those that eat roots are 蟊; those that eat leaves are 螣." It is also written as 𧈩. The Erya writes it as 𧎢. The Shuowen says: "When officials extort and beg, then 𧈩 are born." Both characters are phono-semantic).