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Retractor: used in drawing in or back; as a muscle. 



Retroarcuate: curved backwards. 



Retrocession: the going or moving backward. 



Retrose: (sinuate), pointing backwards; (serrate) inversely serrated. 



Retuse: ending in an obtuse sinus or broad, shallow notch, terminated by an 



obtuse hollow. 

 Reversed: turned in an unusual or contrary direction, as upside down or 

 inside out : said of wings when they are deflexed, the margin of secondaries 

 projecting beyond those of primaries. 

 Reviviscence: coming back to life; awakening from hibernation. 

 Revolute: spirally rolled backward. 



Rhabdites: the blade-like elements of the sting and ovipositor; a rod or blade- 

 like process projecting from the epidermis. 

 Rhabdom: the rod lying in the axis of the retinula, below the crystalline cone 



of an eye. 

 Rhabdomere: the rod-like distal portion of a retinular cell. 

 Rhabdopoda: clasping organs of the 9th abdominal segment of male. 

 Rhinarium: a nostril piece or portion of the nasus ; q. v.: in Odonata, the 



lower portion of clypeus : :^ ante-clypeus ; q. v. 

 Rhipiptera: ^ Strepsiptera ; q. v. 

 Rhomboidal: having the form of a rhomb. 

 Rhombus: a quadrangular figure having its four sides equal and its opposite 



lines parallel, with two opposite angles acute and two obtuse. 

 Rhopalocera: that series of Lepidoptera in which the antennse are alike in 



both sexes and form a club at tip. 

 Rhodoptera: apterous insects with sucking mouth structures. 

 Rhophoteira: an ordinal term for the fleas (Clairville). 



Rhynchophora: that section of Coleoptera, in which the head is produced into 

 a snout, at the end of which the mouth structures are situated; gular sutures 

 confluent ; prosternal sutures wanting : the weevils. 

 Rhynchota: =: Rhyngota ; q. v. 

 Rhynchus: of Fabricius, = promuscis : q. v. 



Rhyngota: insects in which the mouth parts are prolonged into a beak or 

 rostrum which serves as a protection to the piercing lancets; ^ Hemiptera 

 in the broad sense. 

 Rhythmical: occurring at regular intervals in the production of opposite 



conditions. 

 Rigid: inflexible: holding a direct course. 

 Rima : a crack or longitudinal opening with sharp edges. 

 Rimose: full of cracks. 



Ring: a circle or annulus, usually margining a discolored spot. 

 Ringent: gaping. 



Riparian: along the river or along shore. 

 Ripicolous: dwelling on river banks: riparian. 

 Rorulentum: dusty: = pulverulent ; q. v. 

 Roseate -eous, -eus: rose colored; pale blood red [rose]. 

 Rosette-shaped: in the form of a double rose; clustered round a centre. 



