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EE— Pygldlum normal, covered or uncovered; tibiae not serrate. 



F — Antennae geniculate ; labrum wanting (Calandrldte.) 



PF— Antennae straight, 10- or 11-jointed; labrum distinct. 



(Anthrlbidae.) 



Glossary for the Table of Coleoptera. 



Arcte-coxalpiece—a piece of the sternum just In tront ot the coxa. 



ApposUio!i^--position of being placed together. 



Capitate — knobbed, or enlarged at the tip; said of the antennse. 



Vtavate — terminal joints gradually Increasing In size ; said of the antennae. 



Connate— grown together so as to be Immovable upon each other. 



Constricted—na/croweei very suddenly. 



Contiguous— close together, so as to touch. 



Goxal cavity— the depression in the sternal plate into which the coxa is 



inserted. 

 Eyes pedunculated— eyes set in short stalk, or peduncle. 

 Jf'id/orm— threal-like ; said ot the antenna. 

 Fossorial—Fittel lor digging. 



Geniculate— elbowed ; the second joint so attached that it makes an angle 

 with the first, the succeeding joints continuing in line with 

 the second. 

 Olo'yose—ToundL, somewhat like a ball, or globe. 

 Gula — the under side of the head, just behind the mentum. It constitutes 



the principal part of the under surface of the head. 

 Gular sutures — the lines in which the two halves of the gula are joined 



together or to a middle piece. 

 ZameJte— thin, flat plates. 



Laminiform—h.ShVing the form of thin flat plates. 

 Lamellate — terminal joints flattened so as to present flat surfaces to each 



other ; said of the antenna. 

 Jlentum— that part of the under side of the head which lies immediately 



behind the mouth. 

 ifetasternum—stemxnn of the metathorax. 

 Onychium—a small appendage between the claws. 

 Pectinate — toothed like a comb ; said of the antennae. 

 Penultimate — next to the last. 

 Pronotum-iovsaX side of the prothorax. 

 P»6«scen<— covered with fine hairs. 

 Pygidium-the last dorsal segment of the abdomen. 

 /SstoceoMS— hair-like ; said of the antenna. 

 Serrate — toothed like a saw. 

 Setose — furnished with many hairs. 

 Spinose — furnished with many spines. 



;ff<«r»a— plural of sternum; under side of the thorax and abdomen. 

 Sulcate—groovei. 



Suture— a, line lu which one piece joins another. 

 Thorax ?nargi7ied— furnished with a thin edge, or shelf, projecting from the 



thorax outward. 

 Trochantin—a,n accessory piece attached to the outer side of the middle 



and anterior coxae. 



Table for Determining the Families of Hymenoptera. 



(Arranged by permission from Cresson's Synopsis of the Hymenoptera of North 



America. J 



A— Posterior trochanters one-jointed. 

 B— Anterior wings with at least one closed complete sub-marginal cell. 

 G— Posterior tarsi with the basal joint more or less compressed and dilated, 

 and densely pubescent beneath. 

 D— Labium slender, not flattened, longer than the mentum ; basal joints 



of the labial palpi elongate ( Apldae. ) 



DD— Labium flattened, shorter than the mentum ; basal joints of the labial 



palpi not unlike the following joints ( Andrenid se. ) 



CO— Posterior tarsi with the basal joint more or less cylindrical, never much 

 widened or densely pubescent. 

 D— Petiole of the abdomen, simple, without scales or nodes. 



