GLOSSARY. 



Acuminate. Ending in a prolonged point. 



Anastomosing. Inosculating or running 

 into each other like veins. 



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

 surrounded by narrow rings of a dif- 

 ferent color. 



Apodmis. Footless. 



Areolnte. Furnished with small areas; 

 like a net work. 



Aristnte. Furnished with a hair. 



Aurelia. Ancient term for pupa. 



Blastoderm. The primitive skin of the 



embryo. 

 Blastodermic cells. The cells forming 



the blastoderm. 

 Bullate. Blistered. 



Calcarnted. 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. 



Chrysalis. The pupa of Lepidoptera. 



Concolorous. Of the same color with 

 another part. 



dilute. Fringed. [ashes. 



Cinereous. Ash color; color of wood 



Cingnlfi. A colored band. 



Cluriite. 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. 



Crenate. Scalloped, with rounded teeth. 



Cupreous. Coppery in color. 



Dentated. Furnished with teeth. 



Depressed. Flattened down. 



Dilated. Widened, expanded. 



Dimidiate. Half round. 



Discal. 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. 



Eruca. The larva. 



Excurved, Curved outwards. 

 Exserted. Protruded; opposed to in- 

 closed. 

 Exuvia. Cast-off 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. 



Fenestrated. Marked with transparent 

 spots surrounded by a darker color, 

 like window panes. 



Ferruginous. Rust-colored. 



Filiform. Thread-like. 



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. 



Front. 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-csneous. Brazen, with a tinge of 

 brownish yellow. [deer. 



Fulvous. Tawny ; color of the common 



Furcated. Forked. 



Fusco-testaceous. Pull 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. 



Cii-iiiinate. 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. 



Ftnmule. A little hook. 



Hastate.. Halberd shaped. 



Ilaustellate. Furnished with a proboscis 



or tongue-like mouth. 

 Uexapodous. Provided with six feet. 

 Hirsute. Clothed with shaggy hairs. 

 ffi/'/line. Transparent; of tne color of 



water. 

 Hypostoma. The clypeus in diptera. 



Incrassated. Thickened; swelled out on 

 some particular part. 



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