Puncture: an impression like that made by a needle.
Punctured: marked with small, impressed dots.
Puniceus: carmine red [carmine].
Pupa: the intermediate stage between larva and adult; loosely applied for all orders, properly only for those with a complete metamorphosis: a pupa is obtect, when inclosed in a rigid case on which the members may or may not be outlined. It is liber, or free when the appendages are separately encased and there is no covering over the whole: see chrysalis.
Puparium -ia: in Diptera, the thickened larval skin within which the pupa is formed.
Pupate, Pupation: to become a pupa: the act of becoming a pupa.
Pupiferous: applied to that generation of plant lice which produces sexed individuals.
Pupigenous: =pupiparous; q.v.
Pupigerous: forming a larval pupariuni: coarctate: said of dipterous larva that contract to form an envelope for the inclosed pupa.
Pupil: the central mark of an ocellate spot.