Vernantia: the molting or shedding of the skin. Verriculate: with thick-set tufts of parallel hairs. Verricule: a dense tuft of upright hairs. Verrucose: having little hard lumps or wart-like elevations. Versatile: moving freely in every direction. Versicolored: with several colors, indeterminately restricted. Vertex: the top of the head between the eyes, front and occiput: in bees, that part of the head adjacent to and occupied by the ocelli: in Notonectids, "the imaginary anterior margin of the notocephalon." Vertexal: occurring on or near the vertex, or directed toward it. Vertical cephalic bristles: in Diptera, are two pairs, inner and outer, inserted more or less behind the upper and inner corner of the eye; erect, or the inner pair convergent, the outer pair divergent. Vertical margin: in Diptera, the limit between front and occiput. Vertical triangle: in male Diptera, the small triangle upon which the ocelli are situated; limited behind by vertex, in front by eyes. Verticil: one of the whorls of long fine sensitive hair arranged symmetrically on the joints of the antennae in certain Diptera. Verticillate: placed in whorls: antennae in which the joints have a circle of long, fine hair as in Cecidomyiids. Vesicant: blistering: able to produce a blister. Vesicle of penis: in Odonata, a sac with chitinous walls, attached to the sternum behind the penis. Vesicles: little sacs, bladders or cysts: applied to extensible organs producing odors or secretions, as in some beetles and caterpillars. Vesicular: bladder-like; beset with spherical prominences. Vesicula seminalis: see seminal vesicles. Vestibule: the space around the ovipositor formed by the projecting margins of the surrounding segments: the space between the occluding structure of the spiracle and the valve opening into the trachea itself. Vestigial: small or degenerate: only a trace or remnant of a previously functional organ. Vestiture: the surface clothing, whether of a hairy or scaly character. Vexhillum: in Hymenoptera, an expansion on the tip of tarsi of certain fossorial groups. Vibrant: having a rapid motion to and fro. Vibratile: formed for vibratory motion: used to express the almost continual movement of the antennae of some Hymenoptera, and the wings of some Diptera. Vibrissae: curved bristles or hairs in some Diptera, situated between the mystax and the antenna: whiskers. Villi: soft hairs or papillate processes: plural of villus, q.v. Villose -ous: soft-haired or clothed with soft, short hair. Villus: a short, hair-like or papillate process on the surface of certain absorbent and sensory organs. Vinous: wine-color: a deep, transparent red-brown, like claret [purple madder]. Violaceous: violet colored: a mixture of blue and red [violet carmine]. Virescent or Viridescent: greenish or becoming green. Viridis: green, like verdigris [French blue + chrome yellow + white]. Viscera: the internal organs of the body.