Mala maxillae: the globes of maxilla; outer or galea, inner or lacinia; where only one is present, the term refers to that one. Malaxation: a kneading or softening; applied to the chewing and squeezing by fossorial wasps of insects captured as food for their larva. Male: that sex having organs for the production of spermatozoa: designated by "?", the astronomical sign for Mars. {Scanner's comment: The sign for Mars being an diagonal arrow rising from a circle, and pointing upwards towards the right.} Mallophaga: wool-eaters: an ordinal term applied to biting lice: wingless: mandibulate; thoracic segments similar; no metamorphosis: =Lipoptera. Malpighian tubules: long, slender tubules, varying in number, serving as excretory organs, entering the alimentary canal at the point of junction of chylific ventricle and ileum: said to be analogous with kidneys: = biliary vessels. Mammilate: with nipple-like protuberances or processes. Mandible: the lateral upper jaws of a biting insect. Mandibular strobe: a broad deep groove on outer side of mandible in some Coleoptera. Mandibular segment: the fourth or mandible bearing segment of head. Mandibulata: that series of insects in which the adults have functional mandibles used for biting. Mandibulate: with jaws or mandibles. Manicate -us: fur-like: surface clothed with irregular depressed hair. Manitrunk: that part of trunk that bears the anterior legs: =prothorax. Manometabola: with a slight or gradual metamorphosis and without a resting stage; e.g. the Orthoptera. Manubrium: in Coleoptera: that part of the mesosternum in Elateridae which forms the process for fitting into the cavity of the prothorax: in Collembola the basal part of the furculum. Manus: the hand: formerly applied to the anterior tarsus. Marbled: irregularly mottled, gray and white, like marble; = marmoratus. Marcescent: shrivelling. Margaritaceous: shining, like mother of pearl = nacreous; q.v. Margin: that portion of a surface within the edge, bounded on the inner side by the sub-margin and consisting of a more or less dilated imaginary line. Marginal: of, belonging to, or near the margin. Marginal area: in Orthoptera; see mediastinal area. Marginal bristles: in Diptera; are inserted on the posterior margin of the abdominal segment. Marginal cell: in Diptera (Williston):= subcostal (Shiner):= radial (Comst.): in Hymenoptera:= radial and 2 (Comst.): in general that cell beyond the stigma. Marginal field: in tegmina = costal field: q.v. Marginal nervure or vein: in Orthoptera, = costa (Comst.): in Hymenoptera (Norton) = radius 3 (Comst.): in general, the vein forming the marginal cell. Margined -ated: bounded by an elevated or attenuated margin: when the margin is edged by a flat border. Marmorate -us: spots and lines irregularly disposed, as in marble: marbled. Mask: in the nymphs of Odonata, the modified labium which, when at rest, conceals the other mouth parts. Masticate: to chew.