This last nervure, which is of a slightly reddish hue, is the fundamental element of the musical device; it is, in short, the bow, the fiddlestick, as is proved by the fine notches which run across it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

Anterior wings with two submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The wings with one marginal and three submarginal cells, and one recurrent nervure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

First submarginal cross-nervure: Hymenoptera; part of the media and the radio-medial cross vein (Comst.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Marginal field: in tegmina = costal field: q.v. Marginal nervure or vein: in Orthoptera, = costa (Comst.): in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Discocellular nervure or vein: Lepidoptera; = discal vein, q.v. Discoidal: relating to the disc, or middle = discal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Thorax: coarsely punctured; the mesothorax with an abbreviated deeply impressed line in the middle of its anterior margin; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the apex of the wings slightly fuscous, the anterior pair with two submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Saussure, but differs in too many, I think, to be considered the same species; the second recurrent nervure is straight at the upper extremity, then curved towards the margin of the wing, and again straight at its lower extremity; the third submarginal cell is much wider than the fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

He says, “It is remarkable for having a sort of drum at the base of the fore wings, between the costal nervure and the subcostal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter II] Reference

This segment is bent at a right angle along a strong longitudinal nervure, and descends on the outer side in a flap which encloses the insect's flank when in the attitude of repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

Of all the elaborate symbolism which has been suggested for the Gothic cathedral, the most vital and most perfect may be that the slender nervure, the springing motion of the broken arch, the leap downwards of the flying buttress, -- the visible effort to throw off a visible strain, -- never let us forget that Faith alone supports it, and that, if Faith fails, Heaven is lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

He says, "It is remarkable for having a sort of drum at the base of the fore wings, between the costal nervure and the subcostal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference