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EXPLANATION OF TERMS 



Sulcated: grooved: furrowed with broad, concave, parallel impressed lines. 



Sulciform: resembling a sulcus. 



Sulcus: a furrow or groove: a groove-like excavation. 



Sulphureous -eus: bright, sulphur yellow [chrome lemon]. 



Superans: exceeding in size and length. 



Superciliary: placed above the eyes. 



Supercilium: an arched line over an ocellate spot. 



Super-family: a division of classification less than an order, including a series 



of family groups mere closely related to each other than to similar groups 



within the order: opinionative and ending in oidca: sometimes hardly ditler- 



ent from suborder ; but lower than suborder when both terms are employed. 

 Superficies: the upper surface. 

 Supericornia: those Heteroptera having the antennae inserted on the upper 



parts of the sides of the head; e. g., Coreida : see infericornia. 

 Superior wings: the primaries; q. v. 



Superlinguae: the lateral pair of organs of hypo-pharynx in Thysanura. 

 Superlingual segment: the fifth segment of head. 

 Superne: denotes all those parts belonging to the upper surface. 

 Supernumerary: additional or added cells, veins or other structures. 

 Supernumerary segment: in Cecidomyidcc, between the head and first thoracic 



segment. 

 Super-order: a group of allied orders, like the Linnsean Neuroptera. 

 Superposed: placed one above the other, as the frontal tufts in some moths. 

 Supplementary sectors: interposed sectors; q. v. 

 Suppression: the non-development of a part normally present. 

 Supra-: over ; above. 

 Supra-alar bristles: in Diptera, are situated, one on the post-alar callus, one 



on the alar frenum, the third on the edge of the supra-alar depression. 

 Supra-alar cavity: = supra-alar groove. 

 Supra -alar depression: in Diptera ^supra-alar groove. 

 Supra-alar groove: in Hymenoptera, a groove or depression just above the 



base of wings : in Diptera, a groove on the meso-thorax just above the root 



of the wings. 

 Supra-anal: situated above the anus. 

 Supra-anal hook: in (^ of most Lepidoplcra, a curved hook attached to the 



plate covering the genital cavity : = uncus. 

 Supra-anal plate: a triangular sclerite covering the anal cavity above; present 



in many insects, sometimes in one sex only, often in both : see anal 



operculum. 

 Supra-cerebral: applied to that pair of salivary glands situated above the 



brain in bees. 

 Supra-clypeal mark: in bees; a patch of light color above the clypeus. 

 Supra-clypeus: = post-clypeus ; q. v.: = nasus. 

 Supra-oesophageal: situated above the oesophagus: applied to two large ovoid 



ganglia so situated, and connected by a short, thick commissure ; — the brain. 

 Supra-orbital: situated above the eye. 

 Supra-spinal: above the spine or nerve cord : applied to a cord or band of con- 



