Pictured-vjlng files 104 

 PICTURED-WINGS: With dark marks or 



designs. 

 Plerldae 91 

 Pier Is rapae 91 

 Pinching bug 60 

 Pinning block 25 

 Pinning boards 28, 29 

 Pinning Insects 23, 24 

 Pinning stand 25 

 Pins 23 



PIT: Small indentation or depression. 

 Plant bugs 78 

 Plant hoppers 84 

 Plant louse 46, 87 

 Plathemls lydla 41 

 Platymetoplus acutus 85 

 Platysoma depressum 64 

 Platystomidae 75 

 Pleasing fungus beetles 67, 72 

 Plecoptera 43 

 Plum-moths 92 

 Points 26, 27 

 POllstes variatus 112 

 POST: Behind or after. 

 POSTERIOR: End of Insect opposite 



head. 

 Powderpost beetles 65 

 Pra.ylng mantis 54 

 PREDACIOUS: Preying upon other 



insects. 

 Primitive ^^/eevlls 75 

 PROCESS: A prolongation of the sur- 

 face, margin, or an appendage; any 



prominent portion of the body not 



otherwise definable. 

 PROLEG: The fleshy unjointed abdo- 

 minal legs of caterpillars and 



certain sarfly larvae. 6, 40 

 Promachus vertebratus 100 

 Promlnents 94 



PRONOTUM: The upper or dorsal sur- 

 face of the prothorax. (See Fig. 31) 



Proslmullum pecaurum 98 



PR03TERI:AL suture: The division line 

 betv/een the presternum and the 

 plates on the side of the thorax. 



PROSTER.VJM: The fore-breast; the 

 sclerlte between the fore-legs. (See 

 Fig. 123) 



PROSTRATE: Lay In:; dovm; flat v/lth 

 surface. 



Protective coloration 6 



Protoparce sexta 93 



PROTHORAX: The forv;ard portion of 

 the thorax, bears the anterior legs 

 but no wings; '.vhen free, as In Cole- 

 optera. Is usually referred to as 

 the "thorax." (See Fig. 32) 



Psammocharidae 111 



Psammocharus america-ius 111 



Pseudolucanus capreolus 60 



Psylla pyrlcola 86 



Pterophorldae 92 



Ptlnldae 64 



Ptinur brunneus 64 



PUBESCENCE: Soft, fine, chort, erect 

 hair or down. 



PULVILLUS,-I: Soft pad-like struc- 

 tures between tarsal claws. 



PWJJTATE: Set with impressed points 

 or punctures. 



PUK'CTURJD: Same as punctate. 



Pupa (See Fig. 4) 



PYGIDim': The last dorsal segment of 

 abdomen left exposed by the elytra 

 (beetles). (See Figs. 109 and 138) 



Pyralidldae 93 



?yrausta nub 11 alls 93 



Pyrochroldae 70 



QUADRATE: Square or nearly so, 

 QUIESCEIIT: Kot active. 



RADIUS: Third vein of Insect wing. 



Ranatra fuse a 82 



Record card 115 



RECin^EI.T: Lying down. 



Reduvlidae 81 



Reduvlus personatus 81 



Reference books 7 



REFLEXED: Angularly bent backward; a 



surface turned in upon Itself. 

 Relaxing specimens 22, 30 

 Reticulltermes flavlpes 44, 45 

 Rhagoletis congulata 104 

 Rhamphomyia rava 101 

 Rhodites rosae 109 

 Rhynchophora 55 

 Roaches 39, 48 

 Rove beetles 61 

 Royal moths 94 

 Ruby spot 50 



RUDII\I]NTARY: Undeveloped. 

 RLTOUS: Brick red. 

 RUGOSE: Wrinkled. 



San Jose scale 49 



Saturniidae 94 



Satyr idae 90 



Sawflies 107 



Scale insects 48, 86 



SCALES: Broad flattened hairs. 



SCAPE: The long basal joint of a 

 geniculate antenna. (See Fig. 29H) 



Scaphidildae 61 



Scaphldium quadrlguttatum 61 



Scarabaeidae 59 



Sceliphron coementarium 112 



Sciapus slpho 102 



Scientific name 1 



SCLERITE: Any piece of the body wall 

 bounded by rutures. 56 



Scolopp sulcipes 84 



Scolia biclncta 112 



Scolildae lir. 



Scolytldae 74 



Scolytus rugulorus 74 



Scorpion flies 43 



Scutelleridae 76 



SCUTELLUM: The triangular piece be- 

 tween the base of the elytra. Parti- 

 cularly large on some liemiptera. 



Seed weevils 73 



SEGMENT: A ring or division bounded 

 by incisions or sutures. 



Separator 14 



SE;\RATE: Saw-toothed. 



Shield-backed bugs 76 



Shlring fungus beetles 61 



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