GLOSSARY. 



Acuminate. Ending in a prolonged point. 



Anastomosing. Inosculating or running 

 into each other like veins. 



Annulate. When u leg, antenna, etc., is 

 surrounded by narrow rings of a dif- 

 ferent color. 



Apodous. Footless. 



Areolate. Furnished with small areas; 

 like a net work. 



Aristate.. Furnished with a hair. 



Aurelia. Ancient term for pupa. 



Illastoderm. The primitive skin of the 



embryo. 

 Blastodermic <-<-lls. The cells forming 



the blastoderm. 

 Jin/late. Blistered. 



( 'nlciirated. Armed with spurs. 



Cancellate. Crossed by lines going at 

 right angles to each other. 



Capitate. Ending in a knob. 



Carina. An elevated keel-like ridge. 



Carpus. The pterostigma. 



Cellule. A little, space surrounded by 

 veins on the wing. 



Chela. Terminal portion of a foot, with 

 a movable lateral toe, like the claw of 

 a crab or mandibles of arachnids. 



ChriisaUs. The pupa of Lepidoptera. 



Cimcolorous. Of the same color with 

 another part. 



( 'ili/ite. Fringed. [ashes. 



Cinereous. Ash color; color of wood 



Cingula. A colored band. 



Chi rate. Club-shaped. 



Coarctate. Contracted; compact. 



Confluent. Running into each other. 



Connate.. United. 



Cordate. Heart shaped. 



Coriaceous. Leather-like, thick, tough, 

 and somewhat rigid. 



Corneous. Of a horny substance; re- 

 sembling horn. 



Creuate. Scalloped, with rounded teeth. 



Cupreous. Coppery in color. 



Dentated. Furnished with teeth. 



Depressed. Flattened down. 



Dilated. Widened, expanded. 



Dimidiate. Half round. 



Disr.nl. Relating to the disk: discoidal. 



Edentulous. Destitute of teeth. 



Emarginate. Notched ; terminating in an 

 acute notch at tip. 



Entire. (Wings) with a simple, not in- 

 dented, edge. 



Epistoma. That part of the face between 

 the front and labrum. 



Knica. The larva. 



l-.'.i-cttrwed. Curved outwards. 

 Exserted. Protruded; opposed to in- 

 closed. 

 Exuviu. Cast-oft" skin. 



Fades. Appearance, aspect. 



Falcate. Sickle-shaped. 



Fascia. A stripe broader than a line. 



Fauna. An assemblage of animals peo- 

 pling a region or country. 



Fein-si rated. Marked with transparent 

 spots surrounded by a darker color, 

 like window panes. 



Ferruginous. Rust-colored. 



Filiform. Thread-li ke . 



Flavescent. Somewhat yellow . 



Flexuous. Almost zigzag. 



Foliaceous. Leaf-like. 



Forcipated. Forceps-like. 



fovea. A more or less rounded depres- 

 sion. 



Free. Unrestrained in articulated move- 

 ment; not soldered at the points of 

 contact. 



l-'r<iiit. The fore-face, bounded by the 

 eyes, the vertex, and often beneath by 

 the epistoma, or clypeus. 



Fuliginous. Of the color of dark smoke. 



Fulvo-ceneous. Brazen, with a tinge of 

 brownish yellow. [deer. 



Fulvous. Tawny ; color of the common 



Furcated. Forked. 



Fiitii-o-testaceous. Dull reddish brown. 



Fuscous. Dark brown; approaching 

 black. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped; gradually 

 tapering at each end. 



Ganglion. A centre of the nervous sys- 

 tem, containing nerve cells, and re- 

 ceiving and giving out impressions. 



Geminate. Arranged in pairs ; twin. 



Gemmiparous. Asexual generation by 

 new individuals arising as buds from 

 the body of the parent. 



Glabrous. Smooth; opposed to hairy, 

 downy, villous. 



Glaucous. Gray; bluish green. 



Hamule. A little hook. 



Hastate. Halberd shaped. 



Haustellate. Furnished with a proboscis 



or tongue-like mouth. 

 Jfexapodous. Provided with six feet. 

 Hirsute. Clothed with shaggy hairs. 

 fTi/aline. Transparent; of the color of 



water. 

 Hypostoma. The clypeus in diptera. 



Incrassated. Thickened; swelled out oil 

 some particular part. 



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