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mall South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.

Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.

Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidæ. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.

Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.

bers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instr…

One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.

ructures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.

ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.

The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacæcia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.

A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.

come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs." Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soo…

used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).

entilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.

Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.

A very destructive scale insect (Aspidiotus perniciosus) that infests the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at San José, California.

A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.

Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.

A scale insect. (See below.)

The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.