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Chapter 1 No.1

Word Count: 2114    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

esses a likeness or the posse

rve for purposes of identification,

e author after comparison with t

ire-red [v

extending from the mid-gut to the rectum, when n

f chylific ventricle at the point where mal

aining to the

metamorphosis are those embryonic cells around and from w

t or sexually d

ring like the scales on a fi

estitute of s

thout an elevat

nserted, imbedd

that which can

e or made fertile or

ce with shallow depres

: witho

alis:

not jointed

lden yellow [pal

us: h

insect measurement: it is = 12 lines and = 25.4 mm.

ched or deep

or through a surface: the margin

e marking the junction of

s: leaning o

rt is wholly or parti

ttracting attention

r suddenly swollen at some on

d: to cause to de

nother: wings when they cov

folliculus an

: bowed or cu

vein closing the cell, and does not branch directly from any vein reaching the

nor well marked; obscure: o

very deep

ed to metamorph

vering of hairs,

ted: h

larva: a membranous layer of the em

ith irregular elevat

ed: without sp

antenna appear to be inserted well dow

below or behind:

lower one or two of the terminal abdominal p

= hind wings or

below and behind:

n up; distende

bent inward

s: = in

r beneath: opp

lobe, often ending in a chitinous point,

icuous paired plates which underlie in part the cerci

ante-clypeus an

ptly bent inwar

low the genital o

uated below or behi

; in Orthoptera:

to the region below

uated below oesophagus

tuated below the st

g: encroa

ted: c

iform: fun

-brown, with a blackis

large or disprop

s: the c

of maxilla =

the lower or interior edge of the wing

to supply w

: without

er margin of and partially or

other structure prepared by a different s

guests in the homes o

f the class Insect

e the head free from the thorax; more strictly limited to those forms that have onl

building where insects

eeding upon or d

student of insect

cience of insect s

e a part is inserted: a part that

that has its base

natural place or

red to designate the various periods; e.g. the first instar i

r furrows of equa

outh parts of a mandib

outh parts of a haustel

pplied to a margin

outer covering t

between

donata; the terga of m

ween the basal seg

embranous tissue betwe

: in Ephemerides, certain longitudinal veins between the 8th (anal) and 9th (1st maxillary) and not branches of either: in Diptera, the anterior intercalary (Loew) = the di

usually in the narrow grooves betwee

ctures between the normal veins, visible

median protrusion of the basal segme

rs in position or possessing cha

: of termini is =

he three areas between median and lateral longitu

Hymenoptera (Pack.

gle: in Odonat

run free from base to outer margin near hind angle; never bra

een the nerves (o

pairs of salivary glands in bees, situat

Orthoptera; = cubi

r: between

ly applied to the alternate ridges and groov

of some species between the chief veins; = supplementary sectors. Interrupted: broke

al: = intera

etween elytral striae: Lepidoptera spaces be

e interspaces between two win

between two lines, whe

vated ridge between two st

etween two structures, sculpt

inner valve between th

e: of heart, lies in fr

in thespace be

he large intestine in front of the

ch the food passes from the stomach, in which absorption

embrane of the trach

rned or twis

within:

row of two or three between the s

urring within the

r immediately in front of the thoracic suture, betw

ed within the eye, a

ch does not involve movements of the outer body

opment, when the young hatch w

confused; applied to m

used for thr

t organ: th

rected inward,

gly impressed wi

enlarged; swo

sicular part is turned inward or

formed by an infolding or i

hed: a surface wit

ate: = i

in Dermaptera a fl

pirally rol

hose larvae live in a f

ace which reflects

so broken up as to ref

h, in an ocellate spo

ith rainb

ent: = ir

yer of the compound eye just

herwise twisted or modified without or

d with minute p

me red and brown [chronic lemon wit

= pleu

: eq

te out from others

ra in which the tarsi have an eq

mber of tarsal joints on

the same form, appea

era in which the palpi of both se

racic rings similar, loosely jointed metamorphosis incomplete: the Termitidae. {Scanner's note: In modern nomenc

d from more than one species

= -at

aving the power

the cro

: violet

uctures in those dipterous larvae i

ervous structure in the basal

art between two incis

inged with lon

obes of the head of a Hetero

n which there is a jugum instead of a

r pertaining

the membrane connecting the head wit

hat cavity of the posterior part of the head to which the n

be or process at the base of primaries, overlapping

hange from animal tissue to

evated ridg

red, with much bl

ies, genera or other classification accordi

n one long side, concave on the other, the ends e

of junction of

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