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Pala: the shovel-shaped tarsal joints in many aquatic Heteroptcra. 



Palate : = hypopharynx ; q. v. 



Paleace: chaff or chaffy: = paleaceous. 



Paleaceous: chaffy in appearance. 



Palearctic: relating to that part of the earth's surface including Europe, 

 Africa north of Sahara, and Asia as far south as the southern edge of the 

 Yangtse-kiang watershed and the Himalayas, and west to the Indus 

 River. 



Paleodictyoptera: an ordinal name suggested by Scudder for Paleozoic in- 

 sect* which cannot be assigned to existing orders. 



Paleolepidoptera: haustellate Lcpidoptcra in which the mandibles are dis- 

 tinct and the pupa is free : includes the Micropterygidce only : see proto- 

 lepidoptera and neolepidoptera. 



Pallescent: becoming pale or light in color or tint. 



Pallette: the disc-like structure composed of three tarsal joints, on the 

 anterior feet of male Dytiscida. 



Pallid: pale or very pale. 



Pallide-flavens: pale or whitish yellow. 



Pallidus: of a pale, cadaverous hue [a very dilute brown pink]. 



Pallium: an erectile membrane partially closing the open cavity formed by 

 the walls of the subgenital plate in Melanopli. 



Palma: the basal segment of the anterior tarsus when it is broadened or 

 specifically modified. 



Palmate: like the palm of the hand, with finger-like processes. 



Palmula: =pulvillus; q. v. 



Palp: a mouth feeler or palpus. 



Palpal: belonging, relating or attached to the palpi. 



Palparium: in some Colcoptcra, and other insects, the membranous support 

 to which the labial palpi are attached, and which permits an amount of 

 extension not possible when they are fixed. 



Palpi: plural of palpus; q. v. 



Palpicorne: with long, slender, antenna-like palpi. 



Palpifer: any palpus-bearing part: specifically, a small sclerite bearing the 

 maxillary palpus and itself articulated to the stipes. 



Palpiferous or -gerous: bearing a palpus. 



Palpiger: that sclerite of the labium to which the labial palpus is attached: 

 corresponds to the palpifer of the maxilla and has been used in the same 

 general sense. 



Palpigerous stipes: in Coleopterous larvae, = palpifer; q. v. 



Palpuli: the maxillary palpi in Lcpidoptcra, when visibly developed. 



Palpus: a mouth feeler: tactile, usually jointed structures borne by the 



maxillae (maxillary palpi) and labium (labial palpi). 

 Panduriform: violin shaped: oblong, with rounded ends, medially constricted. 



Panorpatas: =Mecoplcra; q. v. 



Pantherine: in color, almost like cervinus ; q. v. : in maculation, like those 



of a panther. 



Papilioform: formed like a butterfly wing. 

 Papilionaceous: butterfly-like. 



