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Naked: not clothed: lacking vestiture: a pupa when not inclosed in a cocoon 



or other covering. 



Nasal suture: == clypeal suture; q. v. 

 Nasus: anterior termination of the face in certain Hymenoptera: the clypeus 



or a modification of it : in Odonata, the upper portion of the clypeus 



= supraclypeus = postclypeus. 

 Nasuti: that type of termite soldiers that have the head prolonged into a 



point. 



Natatorial -ious: formed for swimming. 

 Navicular : boat-shaped = cymbiform. 

 Neanic: referring to the pupal stage. 



Nearctic: temperate and arctic North America, including Greenland. 

 Nebula: a cloud: a vague, indefined, dusky shading. 

 Nebulous -ose: cloudy: without definite form or outline. 

 Neck: the slender connecting structure between head and thorax of such 



insects as have the head free : any contraction of the head at its juncture 



with the thorax. 



Necrophagous: living in or on carrion. 

 Nectaries: honey-tubes, cornicles, siphuncles ; q. v. 

 Nematid: thread-like. 

 Nematocera: =nemocera; q. v. 

 Nematocerous: with long, thread-like antennae. 

 Nemocera: Dipt era with long, at least six-jointed antennae. 

 Nemoglossata: bees with a thread-like tongue. 

 Nemoricolous: living in open, sunny woods. 

 Neogeic: belonging to the Western Hemisphere or New World: see geron- 



togeic. 

 Neolepidoptera : all haustellate Lcpidoptcra, except the generalized Microp- 



tcrygidce ; mandibles not functionally present; pupa incomplete or obtect : 



see paleolepidoptera and protolepidoptera. 

 Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though 



reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters. 

 Neotropical: that part of the earth's surface embraced in the greater part 



of Mexico, West Indies and South America. 

 Neotype: a specimen identified with a species already described, and selected 



as a standard of reference where the original type or co-types are lost or 



destroyed. 

 Nephridia: tubular structures functioning as kidneys in Annelids, Mollusks, 



etc., and incorrectly used as = malpighian tubules ; q. v. 

 Nepionic: that stage of development immediately succeeding the embryonic; 



proposed as a substitute for larval. 



Nerinaeum: a ventral thoracic sclerite between the metasternum and poste- 

 rior coxa in some Colcoptera. 



Nerve: a thread-like structure, composed of delicate filaments whose func- 

 tion it is to transmit sensations or stimuli to or from a ganglion or from 



or to any part of the body or its appendages. 

 Nerves: sometimes used to = veins, in wing structures. 

 Nervi: belonging or referring to the nerves. 



