ong, at least six-jointed antennae.

Nemoglossata: bees with a thread-like tongue.

Nemoricolous: living in open, sunny woods.

Neogeic: belonging to the Western Hemisphere or New World: see
gerontogeic.

Neolepidoptera: all haustellate Lepidoptera, except the generalized
Micropterygidae; mandibles not functionally present; pupa incomplete
or obtect: see paleolepidoptera and protolepidoptera.

Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because,
though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.

Neotropical: that part of the earth's surface embraced in the greater
part of Mexico, West Indies and South America.

Neotype: a specimen identified with a species already described, and
selected as a standard of reference where the original type or co-types
are lost or destroyed.

Nephridia: tubular structures functioning as kidneys in Annelids,
Mollusks, etc. and incorrectly used as = malpighian tubules; q.v.

Nepionic: that stage of development immediately succeeding the
embryonic; proposed as a substitute for larval.

Nerinaeum: a ventral thoracic sclerite between the metasternum and
posterior coxa in some Coleoptera.

Nerve: a thread-like structure, composed of delicate filaments whose
function it is to transmit sensations or stimuli to or from a ganglion or
from or to any part of the body or its appendages.

Nerves: sometimes used to = veins, in wing structures.

Nervi: belonging or referring to the nerves.

Nervulation: arrangement of the nerves: specifically applied to the
arrangement of the chitinous framework of wings and thus= venation;
q.v. Nervules or Nervures: the rod or vein-like structures supporting
the membranes of wings and = veins and veinlets; q.v.

Nervuration: = nervulation and venation: q.v.

Neural canal: an incomplete tunnel on the floor of meso- and
metathorax, formed by fusion of apodemes, serving for the reception
and protection of the ventral nerve cord and for the attachment of
muscles.

Neural groove: is that furrow in the primitive layer of the embryo in
which the nerve cord is formed.

Neuration: = venation; q.v.

Neurilemma: the external sheath of a nerve fibre.

Neuroblast: the large cell in the early embryo, from which the nervous
system develops.

Neuromere: that part of a body segment pertaining to the nervous
system.

Neuroptera: nerve-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four
net-veined wings; mouth mandibulate: head free: thorax