GLOSSARY. 



A bdomen, the last section of the body. 



Aculeate, needle- like ; or, furnished with a needle-like ovipositor. 



Alula, or "little wings," a small membranous appendage at the base of 



each wing in Diptera. 



Areolet, a cell, or enclosed space formed by the nervures of a wing. 

 Base, the part nearest the trunk of body. 

 Brachelytrous, having short elytra, or wing-cases. 

 Capitate, headed, or knobbed, fig. 2, p. 65. 

 Clavate, club-shaped. 

 Costal, belonging to the costa, or front edge of the wing, see figs., 



pp. 254, 379. 



Coxa, the basal joint of the leg, fig. 9, a, p. 35. 

 Deflexed, bent down, or shelving, as the wings of a Lacefly. 

 Elytra, the horny wing-cases of Beetles, &c. 

 Entomophagous, insect- eating. 



femur, the first long joint of the leg, the thigh^ p. 85, fig. 9, c. 

 Filiform, thread-like. 



Fissate (antenna), cleft, see p. 65, fig. 31, (L 

 Fossorial, digging. 

 Geniculated, bent like a knee. 

 Halteres, poisers, an appendage of flies, p. 5 

 Hemelytra, the partially thickened fore- wings in Heteroptera. 

 Hind-maryin of wing, the edge furthest from the body. 

 Imago, the insect in its final, or perfected state. 

 Inner margin of wing, that opposite the costa. 

 Labial palpi, feelers of the labium, p. 30, fig. 5 (Beetle); p. 225, figs. 53, 



59, c (Bee). 

 Labium, the under lip, or tongue, p. 30 ; diagram, p. 29 ; p. 30, fig. 5 



(Beetle) ; p. 32, fig. 6 (Bee). 

 Labrum, the upper lip, p. 30 ; diagram, p. 29. 

 Lamellate (antenna), leaf-like, p. 65, fig. 31, 5. 

 Larva, the insect in the first stage (e.g., in Butterflies the Caterpillar), 



see Ch. IV. 



Ligula, sometimes called tongue, p. 32, fig. 6, g ; p. 225, fig. 59, a. 

 Malleoli, the halteres. 



Mandibles, the upper pair of jaws, p. 29 ; p. 30, fig. 3. 

 Mandibulate, having jaws. 

 Maxillce, the under pair of jaws, p. 29 ; p. 30, fig. 4 (Beetle) ; p. 225, 



fig. 58, d (Bee). 

 Maxillary palpi, feelers of maxilke, p. 30, fig. 4 (Beetle) ; p. 225, 



figs. 58, 59, e (Bee). 



