alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic
generations.

Heterogyna: the ants: referring to the different kinds of
females, - queens and workers, - as distinguished from males.

Heteromera: Coleopteran in which the anterior and middle tarsi are
5-jointed and the posterior are 4-jointed.

Heteromerous: having an unequal number of tarsal joints on the feet.

Heterometabola: differing among themselves in metamorphosis; but
not manifesting abrupt stages.

Heteromorphous: the metamorphosis complete, in abrupt stages, the
larva unlike the adult.

Heteronomous: if two parts, compared with each other, are of different
quality: differing in development or function.

Heteropalpi: palpi with a different number of joints in male and
female, as in some Trichoptera.

Heteroptera: an ordinal term applied to that series of Hemiptera in
which the anterior wings differ in texture from the posterior, and the
different regions of primaries differ in texture.

Heteropterous: with wings of different texture in different parts.

Heterotypical: a genus, described from more than one species, these
differing in structure,

Hexachaetous: Diptera in which the mouth structures have six
piercing setae.

Hexanephric: with six kidneys, or structures serving as such.

Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen
distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.

Hexapodal -ous: provided with six feet.

Hians: gaping.

Hibernaculum: a tent or sheath made out of a leaf or other material in
which a larva hides or hibernates.

Hibernate: to pass the winter in a dormant condition.

Hicks' bottles: {Scanner's comment: sic} flask-shaped pits
or depressions in the antennae of bees and ants: supposed
to be the organs of hearing.

Hind angle: in primaries of Lepidoptera, is that point where inner and
outer margin meet: = anal angle of secondaries.

Hind-body: the abdomen.

Hind-gut: the intestinal canal from the end of chylific ventricle to the
Anus, including the malpighian tubules and anal glands.

Hind-head: Mallophaga; that part of head behind mandibles and
antennae.

Hind-intestine: = hind-gut.

Hinge: of maxilla = cardo; q.v.: the point of articulation of a movable
joint.

Hips: the coxa; q.v.

Hirsute: clothed with long, strong hair; shaggy.

Hispid: bristly: sparsely set with short, stiff hair.

Histoblast: the morphological unit or cell characteristic of a particular
tissue.

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