s on the margin of the
pygidium of the Diaspinae: also applied to lateral expansions of the
abdominal segments.

Lobes: of the maxilla; see galea (outer) and lacinia (inner): of the
mentum in Coleoptera, are the lateral expansions shielding the base
of the central organs.

Lobes of pronotum: in Orthoptera; the spaces or areas formed by
three transverse impressions on the pronotum: that which borders
the head is the anterior lobe, the hindmost is the posterior lobe, those
intervening are the middle lobes.

Lobiform: shaped like a lobe or rounded process.

Lobulate: divided into, or with many small lobes or lobules.

Lobule: in Coccidae, one of the two distinct parts of which a lobe is
sometimes composed.

Lobulus: the partly separated portion of the wings of some flies and of
secondaries in some Hymenoptera: also used as = alula; q.v.

Lobus: of maxilla = galea; q.v.

Locomotion: organs of, are legs and wings.

Longicorn -ia: having the antennae as long or longer than the body;
specifically the Cerambycid beetles.

Longitudinal: in the direction of the long axis.

Longitudinal veins: are those that extend lengthwise through the wing
either directly from base or as branches of one that does start there:
they are named or numbered, and differently in the different orders.

Loop: applied to that structure at base of innerside of primaries into
which the frenulum of male moths is fitted: see retinaculum.

Looper: applied to geometrid and other caterpillars in which some or
all the middle abdominal legs are wanting and which move by bringing
tail to thorax and forming a loop of the intervening segments.

Lora: the chitinous bands connecting the submentum with the cardo
of maxilla (Comst.): the submentum: small cords upon which the
base of the proboscis is seated (Say): the anterior part of the genae at
the edge of the mouth: the corneous processes to which the muscles
flexing the mouth in certain Diptera are attached, and in that sense
the palpifer of the maxilla: in Homoptera, the small sclerite at side of
clypeus and front, extending laterally to the genae.

Lorum: in bees: the angular piece upon which the sub-mentum rests.

Lower austral zone: occupies southern part of United States from
Chesapeake Bay to the great interior valley of California. Is
interrupted by the continental divide in eastern Arizona and west New
Mexico and divided according to conditions of humidity into an
eastern or Austroriparia