GLOSSARY. 



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Prothorax 



Pubescetice 



Pubescent 



Punctate 



Puuctulate . 



Pygidiuni 



Quadrate 



Radius 



Radix . 



Reflexed 



Reniforni 



Reticulate 



Rui^ose . 



Rugulose 



Scabriculous 



Scabrous 



Scape . 



Scapula 

 Scrobes . 



Scuteihini 



Scutum 



Segments 



Serrate . 

 Sessile , 



Seta 



Setaceous 

 Setigerous 

 Shagreened 



Simple . 

 Sinuate 

 Spatuliform 

 Spicula 



Spinate 

 Spinose 

 Spinulose . 

 Spiracle 

 Sternauli . 



Sternum 



Stiguia . 

 Stramineous 



Striate 

 Striolate 



The first and front section of the thorax ; the collar. 



Very short, fine hairs, lending a downy appearance. 



Bearing pubescence. 



Covered with small circular pits or punctures. 



Covered with fine, often sub-obsolete, punctures. 



The apical dorsal segment of the abdomen. 



Square. 



The radial nervure of the front and hind wings. 



Base of the wings, and their point of insertion. 



Bent backwards ; upturned. 



Kidney-shaped. 



Covered with a network, like the human skin. 



Irregularly and roughly wrinkled. 



Irregularly but not roughly wrinkled. 



Regularly and finely wrmkled. 



Regularly and somewhat roughly wrinkled. 



The basal antennal joint ; used collectively for the two 



basal joints, of which the pedicellus is very small. 

 A small, dense tuft of hair. 

 The usually circular impressions upon the frons in which 



the scapes revolve. 

 The usually triangular, raised area at the dorsal base 



(between the meso- and metanotum). 

 The mesonotum. 

 The articulations of the abdomen ; not of antennae and 



legs. 

 Furnished with strong teeth, like a saw. 

 (Of the abdomen). Broadly connected with the thorax ; 



in contradistinction to petiolate. 

 A long, isolated bristle. 



Gradually tapering from base to apex, like a bristle. 

 Bearing setae. 

 Unevenly glabrous ; not smooth, but with sculpture 



obsolete. 

 Bearing no peculiar modifications. 

 Presenting a waved, undulating outline. 

 Flattened out ; deplanate ; like a spatula. 

 The oviduct, or central organ of the terebra. (Of the 



female only). 

 Produced into an acuminate spine. 

 Bearing spines or bristles. 

 Bearing small, often indistinct, spines. 

 A respiratory orifice in the surface of the exoskeleton. 

 The short, and often obsolete, furrows on either side of 



the mesosternum. 

 The lower surface of the thorax ; that of the prothorax is 



the prosternum, and so on. 

 The corneous mass in front margin of the fore wing. 

 Straw-colour ; primrose-yellow ; between white and fia- 



vous. 

 Furnished with distinct impressed lines. 

 Bearing large and deep aciculations. 



