152 GLOSSARY. 



Aquatic. Inhabiting water. 



Ans'ta. A style, or bristle. 



Aris'tate. Furnished with a bristle. 



Artic'ulate. Divided into joints. 



Asex'ual. Same as Agmatic. 



Attenuated. Tapering. 



Aure'lia. Ancient name for pupa. 



Bal'ancers. Rudimentary filaments representing the (lacking) 



posterior pair of wings in the Diptera. 

 Base. The part opposite the apex. 

 Bi. Two or twice (used only in compound words.) 

 Bffid. Cleft. 

 Bifur'cate .Two-forked . 



Bilo bate. or Bl'lobed. Divided into two lobes. 

 Bipec'tinate. Having two edges toothed like a comb. 

 Bristled anten'na. Fig. 343. 



Fig, 343. 



Capitate. Ending in a head or knob (Figs. 95 and 96). 



Cari'na. A ridge. 



Cau'da. A tail. 



Cell. A term applied to the inclosures made by tho veins and 

 cross- veins in the wings (Fig. 125). As these cells differ 

 in number and form in the different insects, they have 

 received different names. In many kinds of Two-winged 

 Flies (such as the Syrphus-fly, Fig. 231, c), the cell next 

 the fore edge of the wing is the costal cell: the three back 

 of this, nearest the body, are the first, second, and third 

 basal cells, and the cell next to the hind edge of the wing 

 is the anal cell; toward the outer edge of the wing, from 

 the first basal cell, is the first posterior cell, while the 

 three cells back of this, along the margin of the wing, are 

 the second, "third, and fourth posterior cells; the closed 

 cell between the second basal and the third posterior 

 cell is the discal cell (this may be easily be known by it 



