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Arcuated, or arquatcd, bowed, 



Arest, or Areolse, wing cells ; the membranaceous spaces between 

 the nervures ; the cellules. 



Aristate, or setarious, (antennge) furnished with a hair, which 

 arises from the superior, lateral, or terminal portion of the ter- 

 minal joint, as in the common house-fly. See clavate, lamel- 

 late. 



Articulate, divided into distinct joints. 



Articulation, joint; this word is generally used to denote the 

 space between two joints; articulations are apparent, when 

 their distinction is obvious, and obsolete, when their separa- 

 tion are not, or hardly visible. The Coleoptera have generally 

 eleven articulations to each antenna, the Hemiptera four to 

 six, the Hymenoptera commonly thirteen in the males and 

 twelve in the females. 



Artus, the memhers ; the instruments of motion, tvings, feet, &c. 



Asperous, rugged ; with very distinct elevated dots, more uneven 

 than scabrous. 



Assurgent, rising ; declining at the base, and rising in a curved 

 manner to an erect posture. 



Ater, the deepest black. * 



Atomus, a minute dot or point. 



Atropurpureus, dark purplish, almost black. 



Atrovirens, dark green, approaching blackish. 



Attenuated, growing slender ; tapering. 



Aurantiacus, orange color ; a mixture of yellow and red. See 

 fulvoxis. 



Aurelia, that state of the imperfect insect which succeeds the 

 larva ; the chrysalis or quiescent state of transformation of an 

 insect, in which it is often inclosed in a separate hard cocoon 

 or follicle. See nymplia, pupa. 



Aureus, golden-yellow. 



Auricle, or auricida, an appendage resembling a little ear; a 

 short membranaceous process, placed laterally on the tongue, 

 it is peculiar to the family Andrenidje ; they are distinguished 

 from the lacinix inter lores of the Apidae by being usually 

 serrate at tip; they are the '' petites parties en forme de bar- 

 billons " of Degeer ; a depressed lateral, rounded lobe of the 

 thorax. 



