THE TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGY. 



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Contigui, toticliing one another. 



Fasciati, marked with stripes of a different colour: this may be ob- 

 served in several of the l^ipterous insects, particularly those of the 

 Tabinkla; but the colours fade when the insect is dead. 

 Fencstrati, the pupil glassy and transparent. 

 Hemispfierici, convex, like the section of a globe. 

 J/nmobiles, so fixed in the head as to be incapable of motion. 

 I'lJ'cri, placed on the imdcr side of the head. 

 Infcrnipti, broken, but continued either above or below, as in the 



Gyrinidcc. 

 iMterales, placed at each side of the head. 

 iMiiati, resembling a crescent or new moon. 

 Mobiles, so situated as to be moveable. 

 Obliterati, the pupil scarcely distinguishable. 

 Octoni, eight distinct eyes, as in many of the Aracltmida. 

 Ovaks, egg-shaped, the outline at both extrenjitics equal. 

 Pcdunculati, elevated on a stalk or peduncle. 

 Plani, the surface on the same plane with the head. 

 ProminuU, standing far out from the head. 

 Quaterni, with four eyes. 

 liemoti, distant from each other. 



Tieniformes, kidney-shaped, nearly round, hollowed on one side. 

 Scni, with six distinct eyes. 

 Simplices, furnished with only one lens: 

 Variegati, of different colours. 

 Vert kales, placed on the crown of the head. 

 OS, tfie 7noiitli and its parts. (See p. 27.) 



Infei-um, when placed on the imder side of ihe head. 

 Maxillosum, with large maxilla". 

 Pcctorak, situated in the breast, in a tube or rostrum. 

 Terminale, the apex of the head. 

 P.\GiNA superior, the upper surface of the wing. 



inferior, the under surface. 



Pal.\tum, the interior part of the transverse lip. 

 PALPI, organs placed at the mouth, often articulated, and generally 

 shorter than the anteume, and are either two, four, or six. {PL 10. 

 fig. \. e. g. labial palpi, f. f. maxillary palpi.') 

 Cflavati, club-shaped, terminating in a knob; growing gradually 



thicker towards the apex. 

 Elongati, longer tlian common, or longer than the mouth. 

 FiXarticulati, with no distinct articulations. 

 Fxserti, projecting, not lying hid. 

 Filiformes, of the same thickness throughout. 

 Incurvi, turning straight upwards at the ends, over the hciiid. 

 Pedifurmes,vi\th a geniculated articulation like a foot. 



