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Lateral, situated on the side. 



Lateritious, brick-color; like miniatus, but duller, and verging 

 towards yellow. 



Latticed, cancellated. 



Leg, the tibia. 



Lenticular, spherically convex on both sides ; a depressed double 

 convex figure. 



Lepidoptera, an order of insects, of which the wings are four in 

 number, covered by minute imbricated scales; as butterflies 

 and moths. 



Leprous, with loose irregular scales. 



Ligula, tongue ; the superior portion of the labium ; it is situ- 

 ated beneath the maxittse, generally of a soft texture, often bifid, 

 and frequently coriaceous at base. See lingula, rostellum, ros- 

 trum, liaustellum, proboscis, promuscis, and tubus. 



Ligulate, strap-shaped, cut off at top ; somewhat linear, and 

 much longer than broad. 



Lilacinous, lilac color ; like violaceous, but duller, tinged with 

 red. 



Limb, the circumference. 



Line, the twelfth part of an inch. 



Linear, with parallel sides ; narrow and nearly of a uniform 

 breadth. 



Lineatcd, lined ; streaked ; marked with lines. 



Lingua, a bivalve, involuted, obtuse and fistulous tongue, com- 

 posed of two elongated semitubular fillets, which are in reality 

 elongated maxillse, as in the Lepidoptera ; the central organ 

 of the proboscis in the Hyrnenoptera constituting a cartilagin- 

 ous instrument of suction. Fabricius has applied the word 

 labium to denote this part, and he again applies the same word 

 to designate the whole proboscis ; it is " le levre inferieur " of 

 Degeer. 



Linguiform, tongue-shaped ; linear with the extremities obtusely 

 rounded. 



Literate, ornamented with characters like letters. 



Livid, dark gray, verging towards violet. 



Longitudinal, the direction of the longest diameter; situated 

 longitudinally with respect to the body. 



