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Inner angle. — (Wing.) The angle situated at the 

 junctions of the outer edge and the inner edge. 



Inner edge. — (Wing.) The interior angle. The 

 extreme border running from the inner angle 

 to the insertion of the wing in the thorax. 



Inner margin, Interior margin. — (Wing.) The 

 margin which extends from the base to the 

 posterior angle. 



Inocular {antenna inoculares). — (Antennae.) When 

 the eye surrounds the base of the antennoe. 

 (L. in, and oculus, an eye.) 



Inquiline. — A dweller in the nest of an alien species. 

 Inquilines : the term given to those insects 

 (species of Cinipidce) which do not make 

 galls, but deposit their eggs in galls already 

 formed, and live in the gall tissues, killing the 

 gall-maker as a rule. (L. inquilinus, a tenant.) 



Insecta, Insect. — The class Hexapoda ; articulated 

 animals with a body composed of three distinct 

 parts, the head, the thorax, and a segmented 

 abdomen. (L. in, and seco, sectum, to cut.) 



Insectivorous. — Subsisting on insects. {Insect, and 

 L. voro, to devour.) 



Insectum, Insecte, Insect.— The derivation of the 

 terms from the two large incrassated masses 

 the thorax and the abdomen. (L. insectum, 

 literally " a thing cut into," i.e. nearly divided, 

 from the shape. — L. insectus, past participle 

 of insecure, is cut into.^ — L. in, into ; secare, to 

 cut.) 



