r small cavities, empty or

egg to the ovipositor: receives the penis of the male in copulation and is sometimes called oviduct: "every part, the office o

an obsolete ordinal

losed in a bi

hetic nervous

rged at botto

ded plate-like galea of the

ece behind the last full ventral segment, a

es of the ovipositor:= corniculi in Lepi

its application to D

ra, branches of the ge

rts join so as to for

slender, unjointed process at

small, valve-

res from a mean type of any species: it is continuous when there is no break bet

the specific characters, is yet recognizably different because of climatic, seas

ounded impression

large, rounded impres

: = vasa def

cles or testes of each side, which usually u

a: the malpi

o the blood-vessels

e, triangular or semicircular opening on

minute transverse ribs or ridge

e wings, and especially those extending longitudinally

s at the apex of anterior tibia in bees a

e male intromittent organ also applied to ether

othed with dense, soft,

: a

of secondaries that marks the beginnin

of Dermaptera, the vein aro

: = spuriou

nal; 2 = cubitus 2; 3 = cubitus 1: 4 = media 3; 5 = media 2; 6 = media 1; 7 = radius 5; 8 = radius 4; 9 = radius 3; 10 = radius 2; 11 = radius 1; 12 = subcosta: on secon

surface of abdomen as a

nflated; p

g or directed tow

f abdomen: in Diptera, that face of the le

o the series of ganglia

ptera, a transverse row

e covering the central nerve cords a

: = ventral d

toderm of an egg from which the embryo,

der part of the puparium, interpose

r tubercle proceeding from the ventra

a big belly: di

ue stomach, = chyli

dle line of the ventr

oward the lower si

extending fro

branches of t

n: wor

, tortuous: resemblin

e in form: a marking

rm: wor

ppearing

molting or shed

thick-set tufts

dense tuft of

ttle hard lumps or w

ing freely in

everal colors, indet

bees, that part of the head adjacent to and occupied by the ocelli:

n or near the vertex,

ter, inserted more or less behind the upper and inner corner of the

iptera, the limit bet

l triangle upon which the ocelli are situate

ensitive hair arranged symmetrically on th

nae in which the joints have a circle

ring: able to pr

ac with chitinous walls, attached

ied to extensible organs producing odors or se

like; beset with sp

nalis: see se

argins of the surrounding segments: the space between the occluding s

e: only a trace or remnant of

clothing, whether of a

expansion on the tip of tars

g a rapid moti

ress the almost continual movement of the antennae

in some Diptera, situated between

papillate processes:

haired or clothed w

llate process on the surface of ce

, transparent red-brown. l

red: a mixture of blue

descent: greenish

rdigris [French blue +

internal orga

ing or attached

ed with a shiny, resi

ck, sticky o

the creative or

or yolk: said of certain cells in the

with a slight tinge of

delicate tissue surrou

glassy; tr

gitudinal, c

is: = frontal

te: s

d to insects which

racic spiracles of Diptera, by means of wh

ng or capabl

cuous: obscure in appearan

rt of head below fron

ice of the vagi

a, the posterior margin

cale: =

th a nearly truncated tip: the enlarged, common base o

s from glandular structures in various parts of the body,

ucture formed by the hind tibia

te a waxy product in either a scale, string or powder: in

er: = wa

s secreted in the wax pocke

= parony

nged around a centre, like the

one pair, the primaries, attached to the meso-thorax;

cover the rudiments of the wings of the imago: the forewings of an imago when the

other muscular fibres above the diaphragm in th

hould be had to the figures illustrating venatio

es, generally fringed at tip, under

veloped wings o

Hymenoptera,

ocial Hymenoptera; also those sexually un