Valgate: enlarged at bottom: club-footed.
Valve or Valvulae: the expanded plate-like galea of the maxilla in many Hymenoptera.
Valve: a small, transverse or triangular piece behind the last full ventral segment, at base of plates in male Jassidae and allies.
Valves: in Orthoptera, the corneous pieces of the ovipositor:= corniculi in Lepidoptera, sometimes used to = harpes; q.v.
Valvula = vagina in its application to Dipterous mouth parts.
Valvulae: in Hymenoptera, branches of the genital forceps of male.
Valvular: when two parts join so as to form a valve between them.
Valvular process: in Odonata, a slender, unjointed process at the apex of each genital valve.
Valvule: any small, valve-like process.
Variation: a departure in color or form, from the normal: the sum of the departures from a mean type of any species: it is continuous when there is no break between the extremes; discontinuous when there are gaps without intermediate forms.