GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGY 333 



Eruciform. Caterpillar-like in appearance. 



Exotic. An introduced species, not native to the place foun<l. 



ExsERTED. Protruded. 



Facet. One of the small divisions of the conii)oinid eye. 

 Fasciate. Banded. 



Femur (pi. femora). The thigh between the coxa and tibia. 

 Filiform. Thread-like. 



Flabellate. With long, flat processes folding like a fan. 

 Formic. Pertaining to or derived from ants. 

 Formicary. An ant's nest or ant hill. 



Front. Anterior portion of the head between the base of antenna; 

 and below the ocelli. 

 FuMOSE. Smoky. 



FuNGicoLous. Living in or on fungi. 

 FuRCA. A fork or forked process. 

 Furcate. Forked. 

 Fuscous. Very dark brown. 



Gena. Cheek; that portion of the head below the eyes on each side 

 extending to the gular suture. 

 Generation. Brood. 



Genitalia. External organs of reproduction and their appendages. 

 Granulated. Covered with small grains. 

 Gregarious. Living in groups or communities. 

 Griseus. Light gray. 

 Guttate. Spotted, light spots on dark ground. 



Habitat. The locality in which an insect lives. 



Haustellate. Formed for sucking. 



Haustellum. Sucker; the part of the mouth through which liquids 

 are sucked. 



Hermaphrodite. A bisexual individual. 



Heterogamy. Alternation of generations, two sexual or a sexual 

 and a parthenogenetic. 



Hibernaculum. a tent or sheath in which a larva hibernates. 



Hibernate. To pass the winter in a dormant condition. 



Hypermetamorphosis. The case in which an insect passes through 

 more than the normal stages of development. 



Hyperparasite. a parasite that is parasitic upon another jiarasite. 



Imaginal Pertaining to the adult or imago. 

 Imago. The adult or sexually mature insect. 

 Infumated. Clouded. 



Infuscated. Smoky gray-brown, with a blackish tinge. 

 Inquiline. a species living in a gall made by another species, not 

 as a parasite but as a guest. 



Inquilinous. Living as guests in the homes of others. 

 Insectary. a place where insects are bred for the purpose of study . 

 Instar. The period or stage between moults in the larva. 

 Integument. The outer covering to the insect body. 

 Intima. The lining membrane of the trachea. 



