impression like that made by a needle.

Punctured: marked with small, impressed dots.

Puniceus: carmine red [carmine].

Pupa: the intermediate stage between larva and adult; loosely applied
for all orders, properly only for those with a complete metamorphosis:
a pupa is obtect, when inclosed in a rigid case on which the members
may or may not be outlined. It is liber, or free when the appendages
are separately encased and there is no covering over the whole: see
chrysalis.

Puparium -ia: in Diptera, the thickened larval skin within which the
pupa is formed.

Pupate, Pupation: to become a pupa: the act of becoming a pupa.

Pupiferous: applied to that generation of plant lice which produces
sexed individuals.

Pupigenous: =pupiparous; q.v.

Pupigerous: forming a larval pupariuni: coarctate: said of dipterous
larva that contract to form an envelope for the inclosed pupa.

Pupil: the central mark of an ocellate spot.

Pupillate: spots or marks that have an eye-like centre.

Pupipara: a series of Diptera, in which the females do not extrude the
young until they have reached the stage ready to pupate.

Pupiparous: bringing forth young ready to pupate.

Pupivorous: feeding upon pupa: especially applied to those
Hymenoptera that are parasitic upon insects in the pupal stage.

Purpurascent: becoming purple in shade.

Purpureous -eus: purple [mauve].

Pustular a colored point of moderate circumference.

Pustulated hair: in Mallophaga those arising from unchitinized
spaces.

Pygidium: the last dorsal segment of abdomen left exposed by the
elytra: in Forficulidw, the last dorsal segment: in Diaspincr, the
compound terminal segment.

Pygofer: the last segment of the abdomen in certain Homoptera,
especially the lateral margins which appear in the ventral view; hence
sometimes used in the plural - pygofers.

Pygophore: the large upper piece of the genitalia in Homoptera.

Pygotheca: the parts containing the genitalia in Homoptera.

Pyloric: referring to the posterior extremity of the chylific ventricle.

Pyloric valve: the specialized posterior portion of crop where there is
no distinct gizzard.

Pyloric valvule: a circular projection of the stomach behind which is
an enlargement of the intestine.

Pylorus: the chylific ventricle.

Pyriform: shaped like a pear.

Q

Quadra -ri -ro: as a prefix, means four.

Quadrate: square or nearly so.

Quadrifarium: having four rows.

Quadrilateral: