Heteroptera

pl. [Gr. heteros, and pteron, wing.] (Zool.) A section of Hemipterans comprehending all the Bugs, distinguished by having the hemelytra terminating abruptly by a membranous appendage. Heterop'tics, n. sing. [Gr. heteros, and Eng. optics.] False optics. Heteroscian, ( het -er-ösh'yan,) a. (Geog.) Of, relating or pertaining to, a portion of the earth's surface, considered relatively to a certain other portion, so situated that the shadows of two objects, one being in the former, and the other in the latter, fall in opposite di rections. -n. [Gr. hetero skios - heteros , and okia , shadow.] ( Geog .) An epithet applied by the ancient geographers to the inhabitants of the two temperate zones, because their shadows at mid-day are always projected in opposite directions in respect to each other; in one case to the north, and in the other to the south.