Stylopidæ (stilopide)

pl. [NL. (Kirby, 1813), are reduced to simple club-shaped appendages (pseudely tra), while the hind wings are well developed, the metathorax being remarkably large and long, and the abdomen small. The females are wingle and worm-like, with a flattened triangular head, and live in the abdomen of certain bees and wasps, though the members of some exotic genera parasitize ants and some homopterous and orthopterous insects. They are viviparous, giving birth to hundreds minute young, very primitive form, with bul bous feet, slender hairy body ending in two long style, and intestine ending as a closed sac. Stylops and Xenus are the only genera represented in North America. S. IMG:content-2336.png:[blocks in formation] magnified.) tera or Strepsiptera, and now of the coleopterous family Stylopidæ.-2. [l. c.] An insect of this genus; a rhipipter or strepsipter. Stylos ant hes (sti-lō-san' thez), n. [NL. (Swartz, 1788), so called from the stalk-like calyx-tube; irreg.