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GLOSSARY. 



HEM-E-LY'TRA. Applied to the 

 partly thickened fore wings of 

 Hemiptera. 



HE-MIP'TE-RA (Gr. hemi, half; 

 pteron, wing). An order of 

 insects with the fore wings 

 partly opaque, which are called 

 hemelytra. 



HER-MAPH'RO-DITE (Gr. Hermes, 

 Mercury; Aphrodite, Venus). 

 Any animal having the organs 

 of both sexes, usually the 

 ovary and testes, combined in 

 the same individual. 



HET-E-RO'CE-RA (Gr. heteros, 

 different; keras, horn). The 

 moths, in which the antennae 

 are of different shapes, as dis- 

 tinguished from those of but- 

 terflies. 



HET-E-ROG'A-MY. Parthenogene- 

 sis ; applied to those cases in 

 which two sexual generations 

 or a sexual and parthenoge- 

 netic generation alternate. 



HET-E-RO-GY'NA (Gr. heteros, dif- 

 ferent; gune, woman). The 

 ants; referring to the different 

 kinds of individuals of ants, 

 i.e., the females and work- 

 ers, as distinguished from the 

 males. 



HEX-AP'O DOUS. Provided with 

 six feet. 



HI-BER-NAC'U-LTJM. A tent 

 made out of a leaf in which 

 the larva hides or hiber- 

 nates. 



HIR-SUTE'. Clothed with stiff 

 hairs. 



HOL-OP'TIC. Contiguity of the 

 eyes in the male fly, between 



the vertex and the antennae. 

 (Williston.) 



HO-MOI/O-GY (Gr. homologia, 

 agreement). Implies identity 

 in structure between organs 

 which may have different uses; 

 as the fin of a whale, and the 

 foot of a dog, or a bird's wing. 

 Homology implies blood-rela- 

 tionship, i.e., a community of 

 origin between parts which 

 may have distinct uses. 



HU'ME-RAL. Relating to the hu- 

 merus. 



HU'ME-RUS. The anterior supe- 

 rior angle of the thorax in Dip- 

 tera. 



HY'A-LINE. Transparent. 



HY'DA-TID. The bladder- worm, 

 or the cystic stage of a tape- 

 worm. 



HY-MEN-OP'TE-RA (Gr. humen, 

 hymen, or membrane; pteron, 

 wing). An order of insects 

 with two pairs of membranous 

 wings. 



HYP'O-DERM. The cellular layer 

 which secretes the chitiuous 

 cuticula. 



HY-PO-GLOT'TTS. A piece situat- 

 ed between the mentum and 

 labium in Clavicorn and Serri- 

 corn beetles. 



HY-POM'E-RA (Gr. 7mpo, under; 

 meron, part). The inflexed 

 sides of the elytra of beetles. 

 (Casey.) 



HY-PO-PHAR'YNX. The lingua; 

 Huxley restricts it to the base 

 of the lingua. 



HY-PO-PYG'I-UM. The male sex- 

 ual organs and terminal seg- 



