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whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder. -- Horse tick (Zoöl.), a winged, dipterous insect (Hippobosca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly. -- Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis (H. comosa), cultivated for…

ry rapidly with a humming noise. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus culubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat. -- Humming-bird moth (Zoöl.), a hawk…

Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.

A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.

An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.

Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidæ, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.

A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

n imago. Imaginal disks (Zoöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.

The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

a, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

Having no wings, as some insects.

Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennæ of certain insects.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvæ of certain insects. Indusial limestone (Geol.), a fresh-water limestone, largely composed of the agglomerated cases of caddice worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.…

Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.

A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.

Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.

One of the pleuræ of insects.