156 GLOSSARY. 



Fu'siform. Spindle-shape; tapering toward both ends (Fig. 



93). 



Gan'glion. A swelling in the nervous cord. 

 Geminate. In pairs. 

 Genic'ulate. Elbowed (Fig. 348). 



Ge'nus. A class or group, each member of which possesses 

 certain characters not found in those iiidividuals, which 

 belong to a different class or group. 

 Gla'brous.- Smooth. 

 Glau'cous. Bluish-green. 



Glob'ular. Having the form of a ball or sphere. 

 Gran'ulated. Covered with small rounded elevations. 

 Grega/rious. Living in flocks or communities. 

 Halt'eres. Small thread-like organs which terminate in a 



knob, taking the place of the hind- pair of wings in the 



Two-winged Flies; balancers. 



Haus'tellate. Furnished with a beak, probosis, or sucker. 

 Hemelyt'ra. The front wings of the True Bugs. 

 Hermaphrodite. An individual in which both the male and 



the female organs occur. 

 Heterom'erous. Applied to the Coleopterous insects which 



have five joints in the front and middle feet, and only 

 four joints in the hind ones. 



Fig. 349. 



Hex'apod. Six-footed. 



Hirsute. Clothed witli stiff hairs. 



Hu'merus. Anterior outer angle of the wing-cases of Beetles. 



Hy'aline. Transparent, like glass. 



Hypersto'ma. The clypeus in the Two-winged Flies. 



