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The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.

The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.

Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.

A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.

One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates.

pecies of the genus. Onion fish (Zoöl.), the grenadier. -- Onion fly (Zoöl.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. -- Welsh onion. (Bot.) See Cibol. -- Wild onion (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Allium.

An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

shade (Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito. -- Orange scale (Zoöl.) any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale (M. Gloveri), and the red scale (Aspidiotus Aurantii).

ree sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.…

assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.

An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.

One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.

The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.

nt; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

g herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4.