**Lucanus**, the Stag-Beetle, a genus of insects of the order of coleoptera. See Entomology Index.

**Lucar de Barameda** (St.), a handsome and considerable town of Spain, with a very good harbour, well defended, in Andalusia. It was once the greatest port in Spain, before the galleons unloaded their treasure at Cadiz. It is seated at the mouth of the river Guadalquivir. W. Long. 6. 5. N. Lat. 36. 40.

**Lucar de Guadiana** (St.), a strong town of Spain, in Andalusia, on the confines of Algarve; seated on the river Guadiana, with a little harbour. W. Long. 5. 59. N. Lat. 37. 32.

**Lucar la Major** (St.), a small town of Spain, in Andalusia, with the title of a duchy. It is seated on the river Guadiana, in W. Long. 6. 32. N. Lat. 37. 21.

**Lucaria**, a feast celebrated at Rome on the 18th of July, in memory of the flight of the Romans into a great wood, where they found an asylum, and saved themselves from destruction. This wood, in which they found protection, was situated between the Tyber and the Via Salaria. The enemies from whom the Romans fled were the Gauls.—On this festival, Plutarch tells us, it was customary to pay the actors, and such as contributed to the public amusement, with the money arising from the felling of wood. This money was called lucar. It is obvious, from what has been observed, that lucar and lucaria are derived from lucus, a grove.