by a
caterpillar.

Gressorious -vial: with legs fitted for walking: in Lepidoptera; the
anterior legs aborted, the others fitted for walking.

Griscent: ashen gray.

Griseus: light gray; a mixture of white and black [gray].

Group: a division of classification used indefinitely for a series
of allied species, genera or larger assemblages.

Grouped glands: see circumgenital glands.

Grub: an insect larva: a term loosely applied, but more specifically to
larvae of Coleopteran and Hymenoptera.

Guanin: a white amorphous compound which occurs in the
transparent areas of some wings, giving a milky tinge, and is also
found in the photogenic organs of Lampyridae: an excretory
substance, composition C5H5N5O (von Furth).

Guest: applied to those insects that live in nests or dwelling places of
other species, not necessarily at the expense of the host.

Gula: the throat: that sclerite forming the central portion of the head
beneath, extending from the submental to the posterior margin, and
laterally bounded by the genae.

Gular peduncle: in Coleopteran = submental peduncle.

Gular suture: the line of division between the gulag or throat and the
gene or cheeks.

Gulf strip: see semitropical or gulf strip.

Gullet: = oesophagus; q.v.

Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.

Gustatory: elating to the sense of taste.

Gutta: a light spot on a dark ground.

Guttate: with light spots or drops on a dark ground.

Gymnocerata: insects with freely movable, conspicuous antennae: see
cryptocerata.

Gymnogastra: Hymenoptera; species in which the venter is visible: see
cryptogastra.

Gymnoptera: species with membranous wings not covered with scales.

Gynandromorphic: when an individual of one sex exhibits on one
lateral half the organic characters of the other, more or less
completely.

Gyri-cerebrales: lobes of the oesophageal ganglion of the embryo,
connected with the primary lobe: = stalked bodies.

H

Habena: a fascia on the thorax.

Habit -us: the port or aspect: used to express a resemblance in
general appearance.

Habitat; abbreviated Hab.: the region or place which an insect
inhabits or where it was taken.

Haemoglobin: the coloring matter of blood which serves to carry
oxygen.

Haemolymph: the watery blood or lymph-like nutritive fluid of the
lower invertebrates.

Haemoxanthine: a dissolved albuminoid in the insect blood, which
has both a respiratory and nutrit