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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 Odouata, the upper portion of the clypeus = 

 supra-clypeus = 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 in- 

 sects 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: Diptera with long, at least six-jointed antennas. 

 Nemoglossata: bees with a thread-like tongue. 

 Nemoricolous: living in open, sunny woods. 

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



togeic. 

 Neolepidoptera: all haustellate Lepidoptera, except the generalized Microp- 

 terygidee; mandibles not functionally present; pupa incomplete or obtect ; 

 see paleolepidoptera and protolepidoptera. 

 Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though re- 

 productive, 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 speciment 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 posterior 



coxa in some Coleoptera. 

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

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

 any part of the bedy or its appendages. 

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

 Nervi: belonging or referring to the nerves. 



