f the palpifer, to which muscles for
flexing the proboscis are attached: see lora.

Maxillary tentacle: in female Pronuba: a specialized process of
palpifer.

Maxillulae: a pair of appendages in Thysanurids, between
mandibles and first maxillae.

Maxime: very much or very large.

Mealy: with a flour-like dusting: = farinose.

Mecaptera: = Mecoptera, q.v.

Meconium: the substance excreted by certain metabolic insects soon
after their emergence from the chrysalis or pupa.

Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large,
unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head
free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion
flies or Panorpidae. Medi-: prefix, = middle.

Media: the fourth of the longitudinal veins extending from base
through approximately the middle of the wing, not more than four
branched, the branches numbered on margin from nearest apex, to 4
nearest anal angle: in Orthoptera; it is the median or externomedian:
in Lepidoptera (Pack.), is cubitus (Comst.).

Mediad: toward the median plane or middle.

Mediafurca: a process extending internally from the meso-sternum, to
which the muscles are attached.

Medial: referring to, or at the middle.

Medial cells: (Comst.), are anteriorly bounded by the media or its
branches: in Hymenoptera (Mort.), includes median and cubital
(Comst.)

Medial cross-vein: (Comst.), is between media 2 and 3.

Median 1: in Lepidoptera (Pack.), = media 2 (Comst.).

Median 2: in Lepidoptera (Pack.), = media 3 (Comst.).

Median 4: in Lepidoptera ( Pack.), = cubitus 2 (Comst.).

Median area: of wings in Orthoptera, lies between the radial and ulnar
veins, radius and media (Comst.): of meta-thorax of Hymenoptera, is
the middle of the dorsum, divided into three spaces or cells; 1st or basal
area, 2d or Lipper median or areola; 3d or apical or petiolar area.

Median carina: Orthoptera; of head, is usually applied to a median
dorsal carina, but has been also used for that which extends down the
middle of front from the fastigium, and then = frontal costa: of
prothorax, extends along the middle of pronotum.

Median cell: in Lepidoptera, is the closed area formed by a line
extending from the end of subcostal to the end of the median veins, =
radial (Comst.): in Hymenoptera, 1st median (Pack.), = medial (Comst.);
2d median (Pack.), - medial 4 (Comst.); 3d median (Pack.), = medial 2
(Comst.); 4th median (Pack.), = medial 1 (Co