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Infumated. Clouded. 



Infuscated. Darkened with a blackish 



tinge. 



Interrupted. .Suddenly stopped. 

 Involuted. Rolled inwards spirally. 

 Irrorated. Freckled; sprinkled with 



atoms. 



Lamelliform. Sheet or leaf-like. 

 Limbate. When a disk is surrounded by 



a margin of a different color. 

 Lamina. A. plate or sheet-like piece. 

 Linear. Like a line. 

 Lineated. Provided with line-like marks. 



Mandibulate. Furnished with mandi- 

 bles; opposed to haustellate. 



Marginated. Surrounded by an elevated 

 or attenuated margin. 



Membranaceous. Thin; skinny, and 

 semi-transparent like parchment. 



IFucronate. Ending in a sharp point. 



Miitic. Unarmed. 



Nymph. Old name for pupa. 



Obcordate. Inversely heart-shaped. 



Oboctite. Inversely ovate; the smaller 

 end turned towards the base. 



Obsolete. Not distinct; or almost IOM t<> 

 view. 



Obtected. Covered. 



Ochreous. Of a more or less deep ochre 

 color. 



Olivaceous. Olive colored. 



Operculum. A lid; a small valvular ap- 

 pendage. 



Oval. Egg-shaped. 



Ovate. More or less oval. 



Oviposition. The act of depositing eggs. 



J'etiolated. Supported on a stem. 

 I'iceous. Pitchy, color of pitch; shining 



reddish black. 

 Pilose. Clothed with pile, or dense 



down. 



Process. A projection. 

 Produced. Drawn out; prolonged. 

 J'ntinose. Frosty. 

 Psc.udova. Unimpreguated eggs, which 



produce young, as in those laid by 



virgin Aphides. 

 Pubescent. Coated with very flue hairs, 



or down . 



J'uJrerulent. Dusty. ' 

 Punctured. Marked with numerous 



small impressed dots. 



Raptorial. Adapted for seizing prey. 

 Recurved. Curved backwards. 

 Reniform. Kidney shaped. 



Reticulated. Marked like net work. 

 Revolute. Rolled backwards. 

 Rostrum. The beak or sucking mouth- 

 parts in Hemiptera. 

 Rufescent. Somewhat reddish. 

 Rufous. Reddish. 

 Riiyose. Wrinkled. 



Sanguineous. Blood-red. 



Scabrous. Rough like a file ; with small 

 raised dots. 



Scalloped. Edge marked by rounded 

 hollows, without intervening angles. 



Sericeous. Having the surface with a 

 ;-ilk-Iike gloss, usually from the pres- 

 ence of minute, dense hairs. 



Serrated. Like saw-teeth. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like. 



Sessile. Not stalked. 



Siiiintti'd. Scooped out. 



,S>//IG>M.S. Armed with spines. 



S/<rs. Stiff bristles, or spines, on the 

 tibiae. 



Stria. Aline usually depressed; some- 

 times composed of punctures. 



Siibaduncate. Somewhat hooked or 

 curved. 



Siiliitlate. Shaped like an awl. 



<uir,itc. With groove-like excavations. 



Sii/i/re. A seam, or impressed line; 

 usually between segments. 



Tiui-ny. Fulvous; a pale dirty yellow. 

 Teneral. A state of the imago (Neurop- 



tera) after exclusion from the pupa, in 



which it has not fully completed its 



coloring, clothing, etc. 

 Tessellate. Spotted like a checker-board. 

 Testaceous. Dull red; brick color. 

 Taincntose. Covered with tine matted 



hairs. 



Truncated. Cut squarely off. 

 Tuberculose. Covered with tubercle-like 



prominences. 



/ 'ii<-inate. Hooked at the end. 

 Unequal. Differing in size, or length. 

 Unguiculate. Armed with a hook or nail. 



I'ah-ule. A small valve-like process. 



}'< utral. Relating to the under surface 

 of the abdomen . 



Verticillfitc. Placed in whirls. 



I'irricuhite. With thickset tufts of par- 

 allel hairs. 



Verrucose. Covered with wart-like 

 prominences. 



rillosr. Clothed with soft, rather long 

 hairs. 



Vulva. Orifice of the oviduct. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



Beauv., Beauvois. Boisd., Boisduval. Burm., Burnieister. Clem., Clemens. 

 Dahlb., Dahlbonj. Den., Dennis. Dej., Dejean. Erich., Erichsou. Esch., Esch- 

 oltz. Fabr., Fabricius. Frohl., Frohliug. Grav., Gravenhorst. G. and R., Grote 

 and Robinson. Guen., Guenee. Gyll., Gyllenhal. Hald., Haldeman. II. Sch., 

 Herrich-Schaeffer. Hiibn., Hiibner. Latr., Latreille. Lee., Leconte. Linn., Lin- 

 najus. Mann., Mannerheim. Mels., Melsheimer. Oliv., Olivier. Pack., Packard. 

 Sauss., Saussure. Schief., Schiefermiiller. Schonh., Schonherr. St. Farg., St, 

 Fargeau. Tellk., Tellkampf. Walk., Walker. <?,male; ?, female; ?, worker. 



