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GLOSSAKY. 



Ivfumated. Clouded. 



Infuscated. L)ai'kened 'with a blackish 



tiuge. 

 Interrupted. Suddenly stopped. 

 Involuted. Rolled inwards spirally. 

 Irrorated. Freckled; sprinkled with 



atoms. 



Lamelliform. Sheet or leaf-like. 

 Limbaie. When a disk is surrounded hy 



a margin of a difl'ereut color. 

 Lamina. A plate or sheet-like piece. 

 Linear. Like a line. 

 Lineated. Provided with line-like marks. 



Mandihulate. Furnished Avith niandi- 

 ■ bles; opposed to hanstellate. , 

 Marrjinated. Surrounded by an elevated 



or attenuated margin. 

 Membranaceotis. Thin ; skinny, and 



semi-transparent like parchment. 

 Mucronate. Ending in a sharp point. 

 Mutic. Unarmed. 



Nymph. Old name for pupa. 



Obcordate. Inversely heart-shaped. 



Obovate. Inversely ovate; the smaller 

 end turned towards the base. 



Obsolete. Not distinct; or almost lost to 

 view. 



Obtected. Covered. 



Ochreous. Of a more or less deep ochre 

 color. 



Olivaceous. Olive colored. 



Operculum. A lid ; a small valvular ap- 

 pendage. 



Oval. Egg-shaped. 



Ovate. More or less oval. 



Oviposition. The act of depositing eggs. 



Petiolated. Supported on a stem. 

 Piceous. Pitchy,, color of pitch; shining 



reddish black. 

 Pilose. Clothed with pile, or dense 



down. 

 Process. A projection. 

 Produced. Dra^vn out; prolonged. 

 Pruinose. Frosty. 

 Pseudova. Unimpregnated eggs, which 



produce young, as in those laid by 



virgin Aphides. 

 Pubescent. Coated with very fine hairs, 



or down. 

 Pulverulent. Dusty. 

 Punctured. Mark'ed with numeroiis 



small impressed dots. 



Baptorial. Adapted for seizing prey. 

 Recurved. Curved backwards. 

 Reniform. Kidney shaped. 



Reticulated. Marked like net work. 

 Revolute. Rollt-d backwards. 

 Rostrum. The beak or sucking mouth- 

 parts in Heuiiptera. 

 Rufescent. Somewhat reddish. 

 Rufous. RedUibh. 

 Rugose. Wrinkled. 



Sanfjuineous. Blood-red. 



Scabrous. Rough like a file; with small 

 raised dots. 



Scalloped. Edge marked by rounded 

 hollows, without intervening angles. 



Sericeous. Having the pui-face with a 

 silk like gloss, usiuilly from the pres- 

 ence of minute, dense hairs. 



Serrated. Like saw-teeth. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like. 



Sessile. Not stalked. 



Sinuated. Scooped out. 



Spinous. Armed Mith spines. 



Sjnirs. Stiff bristles, or spines, on the 

 tibiffi. 



Stria. Aline usually depressed; some- 

 times composed of Vunctures. 



Subaduncate. Somewhat hooked or 

 curved. 



Subulate. Shaped like an awl. 



Sulcafe. With groove-like excavations. 



Suture. A seam, or impressed line; 

 usually between segments. 



Tatony. Fulvoiis; a pale dirty yellow. 

 Teneral. A state of the imago "(Neurop- 



tera) after exclusion from the pupa, in 



which it has not luUy completed its 



coloring, clothing, etc. 

 Tessellate. Spotted like a checker-board. 

 Testaceous. Dull red; brick color. 

 Tomeniose. Covered with fine matted 



hairs. 

 Truncated. Cut squarely off. 

 Tuberculose. Covered with tubercle-like 



prominences. 



Uncinate. Hooked at the end. 

 Unequal. Difl'ering in size, or length. 

 Unguiculate. Armed with a hook or nail. 



Valvule. A Fmall valve-like process. 



Ventral. Relating to the under surface 

 of the abdomen. 



Verticillate. Placed in whirls. 



Verriculate. With thickset tufts of par- 

 allel hairs. 



Verrucose. Covered with wart-like 

 prominences. 



Villose. Clothed with soft, rather long 

 hairs. 



Vulva. Orifice of the oviduct, 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



Beauv., Beauvois. Boisd., Boisduval. Burm., Burraeister. Clem., Clemens. 

 Dahlb., Dahlbom. Den., Dennis. Dej., Dejean. Erich., Erichson. Esch., Esch- 

 oltz. Fabr., Fabricius. Frohl., Frohling. Grav., Gravenhorst. G. and R., Grote 

 and Robinson. Guen., Guenee. Gyll., Gyllenhal. Hald., Haldeman. H. Sch., 

 Herrich-Schaeffer. Hiibn., Iliihner. Latr., Latreille. Lee, Leconte. Linn., Lin- 

 nreus. Mann., Mannerheim. Mels., Melsheimer. Oliv., Olivier. Pack., Packard. 

 Sanss., Saussure. Schief., Schiefermiiller. Schonh., Schonherr. St. Farg., St, 

 Fargeau. Tellk., Tellkampf. Walk., Walker. 



