THE TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGY. 
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Contigui, touching one another. 
Fusciati, marked with stripes of a different colour: this may he ob- 
served in several of the Dipterous insects, particularly those of the 
Tubinidte ; but the colours fade when the insect is dead. 
Fenestrati, the pupil glassy and transparent. 
Hemispheric!, convex, like the section ot a globe. 
Immobiles, so fixed in the head as to be incapable of motion. 
Inferi , placed on the under side of the head. 
Interrupt i, broken, but continued either above or below, as in the 
Gyrin'ultc. 
Laterales, placed at each side of the head. 
Eunati, resembling a crescent or new moon. 
Mobiles, so situated as to be moveable. 
Obliterali, the pupil scarcely distinguishable. 
Octoni, eight distinct eyes, as in many of the Arachnoida. 
Omles, egg-shaped, the outline at both extremities equal. 
Feduncutuli, elevated on a stalk or peduncle. 
Plant, the surface on the same plane with the head. 
Prominuli, standing far out from the head. 
Quaterni, with four eyes. 
Rcmoti, distant from each other. 
Reniformcs, kidney-shaped, nearly round, hollowed on one side. 
Sail, with six distinct eyes. 
Simplices, furnished with only one lens. 
Variegati, of different colours. 
Verticalcs, placed on the crown of the head. 
OS, the mouth and its parts. (See p. 27.) 
Life rum, when placed on the under side of the head. 
Maxillosum, with large maxilla:. 
Pectoralc, situated in the breast, in a tube or rostrum. 
Terminate, the apex of the head. 
Vagina superior, the upper surface of the wing. 
~ inferior, the under surface. 
P alatum, the interior part of the transverse lip. 
Palpi, organs placed at the mouth, often articulated, and generally 
shorter than the antennee, and are cither two, four, or six. {PL 10. 
fig. t.e.g. lubial palpi, fifi maxillary palpi.) 
Clavuti, club-shaped, terminating in a knob; growing gradually 
thicker towards tire apex. 
Elongati, longer than common, or longer than the mouth. 
Erarticulati, with no distinct articulations. 
Exserti, projecting, not lying hid. 
Fdiformes, of the same thickness throughout. 
Incurvi, turning straight upwards at the ends, over the head. 
Ped formes, with a geniculated articulation like a foot. 
