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p. 



Pag hut, the surface of a wing. 



pala, shovel-shaped tarsus of many aquatic Hemiptera. 



palate, the interior part of the transverse lip. 



paleaceous, chaffy. 



pallidas, pallescens, pale; pallicle flavus. pale or whitish yellow. 



palma, palm; the basal tarsal joint of the anterior feet, sometimes furnished with 

 stringilis; after Zimmermann broadened tarsus, =tarsus ampliatus. See 

 manris. 



palmatns, hand shaped ; cut down nearly half way to the base into subequal, ob- 

 long segments, leaving an entire space like the palm of the hand; e.g. tib- 

 iae palmatae. 



palpi, articulated movable filaments in the mouth of insects, generally shorter 

 than the antennae, divided into labial and maxillary palpi. 



panduriform, fiddle shaped; oblong, broad at the two extremities, and contracted 

 in the middle. 



papilionaceous, butterfly-like. 



papilla, the spinning wart, the wart-like elevations between the legs of the larvae 

 of Bombycidae near the mouth. 



papillary, having the apex semitubular, somewhat like the nipple ; this term ought 

 to be distinguished from verrucosus. 



papillosus, pimpled ; having the surface covered with raised dots or pimples, see 

 verrucosus. 



pappus, down. 



paraqlossa, the membraneous parts of the ligula, often projecting at the basal an- 

 gles as ciliate lobes. 



parallelogram, a quadrilateral, right lined figure, whose opposite sides are paral- 

 lel and equal to each other. 



parapleura, that segment of the postpectus, which is situated one on each side of 

 the acetabulum, behind the scapula; in some genera are two on each side; 

 they may then be distinguished into anterior and posterior. 



parasitical, inhabiting another animal. 



parce, parum, scarcely, e. g. parce pilosus, scarcely hairy. 



parieies, walls; perpendicular sides of the honey comb; sides of elevated bodies. 



Partitus, divided; (eyes.) divided by a corneous or membranaceous process into 

 right and left halves, or anterior and posterior halves as in Gyrinus, Geo- 

 trypes. 



patella, disk, the structure of the anterior tarsi in the male of Dytiscus. 



patelhdce, the unequal cup-like impressions on the underside of the patella. 



patulous, (patens,) open; spreading. 



pecien, in Hymenoptera, rigid, incurved setae which arm the exterior margin of 

 the upper part of the base of the valvulae or maxillae. 



pectinatus, comb-shaped; cut into regular straight segments like the teeth of a 

 comb; see perfoliatus, setaceus. 

 bi-pedincdus, on both sides^ comb-shaped. 



