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Setulose: clothed with fine seta or setulae.
s.e.x: as a number, six: the physical difference between male and female: usually indicated by the sign of Mars (?) for male, and Venus (?) for female; workers or undeveloped females have the sign of Venus without the cross line, or a combination of the two others.
s.e.xuparae: that generation of plant lice which produces the true s.e.xes.
Shade: a cloudy, ill-defined streak or band.
s.h.a.greened: a surface roughened with minute tooth-like projections.
Shank: = tibia; q.v.
Shard: a chitinous sheath or elytron.
Sharp: with a pointed tip or thin edge; opposed to blunt.
Sheath of p.e.n.i.s: in Odonata, a median, hood-like piece between the hamules, under which the p.e.n.i.s is folded when not in use.
Shin: = tibia; q.v.
Short sector: in Odonata, = media 4 (Comst.).
Shoulder: loosely applied to an obtuse angulation; more generally to the humeral angle of fore wings or elytra: the anterior angles of thorax in Lepidoptera; the angles of prothorax in Heteroptera: the lateral angles of metazona of p.r.o.notum in Orthoptera.
Sialisterium: a salivary gland.
Side: the lateral margin of the body.
Side piece: in genitalia of male Culicids the main lateral part of the clasping organ or basal segment of clasp.
Sides of thorax: in Odonata, includes the pleura of meso- and meta- thorax, less the meso-episterna.
Sienna: a brownish orange [brown ochre].
Sigmoid: shaped like the Greek letter sigma, or English S.
Signate -us: = with marks or spots; see notate.
Signature: a colored blotch of any size or shape.
Silaceous: = ochraceous.
Silk: the hardened salivary secretion of certain larvae, mainly of Lepidoptera. similar material is produced by a.n.a.l glands of some larva in Neuroptera.
Silk-glands: a pair of modified salivary glands in certain larva, mostly of Lepidoptera that secrete a viscid fluid which, on contact with the air, hardens into a silken fibre.
Silvicolous: living in moist, shady woods.
Simple, Simplex: without process, armature, or appendage of any kind.
Simple eyes: = ocelli; q.v.
Sinciput: in Coleoptera; that part of the vertex between the eyes.
Sinistrad: toward the left.
Sinistral: extending to or at the left from the median line.
Sinistro-caudad: extending obliquely from the left toward the tail.
Sinistro-cephalad: extending obliquely from the left toward the head.
Sinuate: cut into sinuses; applied to lines and margins with an in and out curve.
Sinuated: winding: with the edge scooped into sinuses.
Sinuato-convex: sinuate and convex.
Sinuato-lobate: sinuate and lobed.
Sinuato-truncate: truncated, with the margin sinuate.
Sinuous: undulating; curved in and out.
Sinus: a curvilinear indentation more or less profound: an excavation as if scooped out: a curved break in an otherwise straight margin.
Siphon: a tube-like mouth organ in certain insects: the breathing tube of a Culicid larva: any tubular external process or structure.
Siphonaptera: an ordinal name for insects which are wingless: mouth formed for piercing and sucking; saltatorial; transformations complete: the fleas = Aphaniptera; q.v.
Siphonata: = h.o.m.optera or, more specifically, plant lice and leaf hoppers.
Siphonets: see honey tubes.
Siphonophora: = Coccinellidae; the term is preoccupied in the Coelenterates.
Siphunculata: the sucking lice.
Siphunculus: the suctorial organ of a louse, contained within the tubule: in plant lice =honey tubes; q.v.
Situ (in): in its natural place or position.
Sixth longitudinal vein: in Diptera; = 1st a.n.a.l vein (Comst.).
Skeleton: the hard chitinous parts which externally (exoskeleton) or internally (endoskeleton) form a protective covering, or serve as points of attachment, to muscles and other soft organs.
Skippers: a popular term for Hesperid b.u.t.terflies: the dipterous larva sometimes found in cheese and other provisions.
Slaty: very dark blackish gray with a reddish tinge [neutral with a little Indian red].