108 EXPLANATION OF TERMS 



Pre-media: Ephcmcridce; an apparently distinct vein between radius and 



media (Comst.). 



Premorse: as if bitten off: with a blunt or jagged termination. 

 Prensor: the genital lateral clasping organ of male Lcpidoptcra: see clasper. 

 Pre-ocular: see prse-ocular. 

 Pre-oral: in front of the mouth: the embryonic head segments before those 



bearing the mouth parts. 

 Prepuce: =prseputium; q. v. 



Pre-pupal: that stage in the larva just preceding the change to pupa. 

 Pre-scutellar bristles: in Dipt era, are in a transverse row in front of the 



scutellum. 



Pre-scutellar callus: = post-alar callus; q. v. 

 Pre-scutellar rows: in Dipt era, short rows of small bristles in front of the 



scutellum. 



Press: = filator ; q. v. 

 Pressure plate: a structure at base of pulvillus, which exerts a pressure on 



the sole of the pad. 

 Pre-sutural bristles: in Dipt era, in a trigonate depression at outer ends of 



transverse suture, near dorso-pleural suture. 



Pre-sutural inter-alar bristle: the single bristle of the interalar series, situ- 

 ated before the transverse suture. 

 Primaries: the anterior or fore-wings. 



Primitive: simple in character; of an early or ancient type. 

 Principal sector: in Odonata, extends from its point of separation from the 



median sector to the outer margin, at or just below the apex: = media 1 



(Comst.). 

 Principal sulcus: in Orthoptcra, a transverse impression of the prothorax, 



at or behind the middle. 

 Priodont: applied to those forms of male Lucanids that have the smallest 



mandibles : see teleodont, mesodont, amphiodont. 

 Prismatic: formed like a prism: a play of colors similar to that produced 



through a prism. 

 Pro-: anterior: used as a prefix to designate the parts of the first thoracic 



segment. 



Proboscidea: an ordinal term for the Coccidcc. 



Proboscis: generally applied to any extended mouth structure; usually ap- 

 plied to the extensile mouth of the Diptera; frequently to the beak of 



Hcmiptcra; sometimes to the tongue of Lcpidoptcra; and rarely, to the 



mouth of long-tongued bees. 



Procephalic: relating or belonging to the procephalon. 

 Procephalic lobes: in the embryo, form part of the anterior, overhanging 



portion of the head. 

 Procephalon: that segment of the head in the embryo which is formed by 



the coalescence of the first three primitive segments. 

 Procerebral: that segment of the brain containing the median protocerebrum 



and optic ganglia ; also called optic segment. 

 Procerebral lobes: the central portion of the cerebrum, made up of the fused 



median lobes, giving rise to the mushroom bodies ; q. v. 



