nebulosus, clouded; marked with many scattered, abrupt, dilated lines of various 

 forms. 



neck, a contracted posterior termination of the head in some insects. 



nervi, nervures, nerves or vein like processes which support the membraneous 

 part of the wings; divided into radial, cubital, brachial and recurrent. 



neuroptera, an order of insects, including sueh as have four finely reticulated 

 wings and no sting, as dragon flies, May flies etc. 



niger, pure black. 



nigricans, blackish, grey-black. 



nitidus, nearly synoymous with lucidus and politus, but is less brilliant. 



niveus, snow-like. 



Noctuidce, moths. 



nodosus, knotted, a longitudinal body with one or more swollen parts; a sculpt- 

 ure with almost isolated knots. 



nodulosus, (a sculpture) with knots connected by an undulating line. 



notatus, marked (expressive of color.) 



nototheca, the covering of the tergal part of abdominal segments in pupae. 



nucha, (after Linne) the neck, upper part of the tergum, connecting head and 

 thorax. 



nudus, nacked, (a surface) without hairs, scales or dust. 



nutans, nodding; bent downwards at tip (head, antennae.) 



Nympha, the state of development of an insect feeding in the larva and pupa- 

 state, also called sub- or pseud-imago, (Hemiptera). Lamarck calls nym- 

 phae all pupae with incomplete metamorphosis. 



Ob, prefixed to a word signifies inversely. 



obconicus, inversely conic, conic with the vertex pointing downward. 



dbcordaie, inversely heart shaped; heart shaped with the point applied to the 

 base of another object or part. 



obesus, unnaturally enlarged and distended as if from disease or too much food. 



oblatus, flattened; this term is applied to a spheroid of which the diameter is short- 

 ened at two opposite ends. 



obliteratus, indistinct. 



obliquus, slanting, two lines meeting in an obtuse angle. 



oblongus, the transverse diameter much shorter than the longitudinal. 



obovatus, inversely egg shaped, the narrow ends downwards or towards the base. 



obsitus, (surface) covered with equal bodies, as scales etc. 



obsolete, indistinct; inconspicuous, (faded). 



obtect, covered, (a part) covered by another part, as labrum obtectum in Melolon- 

 tha ; (pupa) wrapped in a crustaceous covering. 



obtuse, blunt; as obtuse dentatus, with blunt teeth. 



dbtusus, blunt; ending in a segment of a circle. 



