labium

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Figure 116 represents the mouth parts of the same insect a little farther advanced, with the jaws and labium elongated and closely folded together.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

Testa cylindrica, polita; spira conica, acuminata, brevissima; labium exterius simplex, interius incrassatum, tumidum; columella plicis numerosis gracilibus; apertura basi truncata, emarginata.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

The labium is not developed from a pair of tubercles, as is usual, but at once appears as an unpaired, or single organ.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

A, Sucking mouth of a Butterfly: p, proboscis; l, labium; l1, labial palps; m, mandibles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The second pair of maxillae are more or less completely fused together to form what is known as the labium or “lower lip.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various