86 EXPLANATION OF TERMS 



Mouth-parts: a collective name including labrum, mandibles, maxillne. labium 



and appendages ■= trophi. 

 Mucoreus: mouldy: a surface covered with small, fringe-like processes. 

 Mucro: a long, straight or curved process terminating in a point: the pro- 

 sternal process in Elaterida : the terminal spine or process of an obtect pupa: 



"' the median posterior point of the epigastrium when differentiated by 



elevation." 

 Mucronate: terminated in a sharp point. 

 Mucrones: in Collcmbola the two small end pieces of the furcula, proceeding 



from the dentes. 

 MuUerian association: a group of species belonging to different genera, often 



different families or even orders, having similar colors, possessing more or 



less distasteful qualities and living in the same locality. 

 Muller's thread: the common terminal thread of all the ovarian tubes. 

 Multangulate: with many angles. 



Multi-: many; used as a prefix, often without the i. 

 Multiarticulate: with many joints or segments. 

 Multilocular: with many large cells, spaces or cavities. 

 Multipartite: divided into many parts. 



Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication. 

 Multispinose: with many spines. 

 Mumia: the pupa. 



Munite-us: armed: provided with an armature. 

 Muricate-us: armed with sharp, rigid points. 

 Murinus: mouse colored [gray with some yellow]. 

 Mushroom bodies: two stalked, mushroom-like bodies arising from procere- 



braJ lobes ; supposed to be the seat of insect intelligence. 

 Muscle: the fleshy fibres of the insect body that serve to move the appendages 



and other body organs. 

 Mute: silent: without power to produce audible sound. 

 Mutic-us: unarmed-: lacking processes where such usually occur. 

 Mutici: Acridiids without a posternal spines. 

 Mutilate -us: cvit off: mutilated: abbreviated: not complete. 

 Mycetophagous: feeding upon fungi. 



Myiasis: disease or injury caused by the attack of dipterous larvx. 

 Myoblast: a cell that produces muscular tissue. 

 Myrmecology: that branch of entomology that deals with ants. 

 Myrmecophilous: ant-loving: applied to insects that live in ant nests. 

 Mystacine -us: bearded: with a hairy fringe above mouth or on clypeus. 

 Mystax: in Diptera; a patch of hair or bristles above the mouth, on the 



lower part of the hypostoma above the vibrissjc. 

 Mytiliform: shell-like; as the middle feet in some aquatic Ilcniiptcra. 



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Nacreous: pearly: resembling mother of pearl: ^ margaritaceous. 

 Nail: a tarsal claw: specifically the stout pointed claws in predatory Hcfcr- 

 optera = unguis. 



