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Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a little 

 recurved at the margin. 



Campestral: applied to species inhabiting open fields. 



Campodeiform: applied to larval forms which, in their early stages at least, 

 resemble Campodca: = leptiform. 



Canadian zone: is that part of the boreal region comprising the southern 

 part of the great transcontinental coniferous forests of Canada, the north- 

 ern parts of Maine, New Hampshire and Michigan, and a strip along the 

 Pacific Coast reaching south to Cape Mendocino and the greater part of 

 the high mountains of the United States and Mexico. In the east covers 

 Green, Adirondack and Catskill Mountains and the higher mountains of 

 Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, western North Carolina and eastern 

 Tennessee. In the Rockies extends continuously from British Columbia 

 to western Wyoming and in the Cascades from British Columbia to south- 

 ern Oregon with a narrow interruption along the Columbia River. 



Canaliculate: channelled; longitudinally grooved, with a deeper concave line 

 in the middle. 



Cancellate: cross-barred: latticed: with longitudinal lines decussate by trans- 

 verse lines. 



Canescent: hoary, with more white than gray. 



Canine teeth: applied to the sharp and conical teeth of mandibles in pred- 

 atory species; = dentes canmse. 



Cantharidin: the substance that gives the meloid beetles their blistering 

 power: composition, CioH^Oi (von Furth). 



Canthus: the chitinous process more or less completely dividing the eyes of 

 some insects into an upper and lower half. 



Canus: see canescent. 



Capillaceous: capilla or hair-like. 



Capillaris: a very slender, hair-like tube. 



Capillary: long and slender like a hair: antennae in which the joints are long, 

 slender and loosely articulated. 



Capillate -us: clothed with long slender hair; = coryphatus. 



Capillii: hairs of the head that form a cap as in certain Trichoptera and 

 Tineid Lepidoptera. 



Capillitium: the hood-like collar in some Noctuid moths, e. g., Cucullia: 

 see cucullus. 



Capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club is 

 abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a spherical mass. 



Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at 

 tip of halteres in Diptcra: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of cer- 

 tain flies. 



Capricorn beetle: a Cerambycid or long-horned beetle. 



Caprification: is that method or process through which the Smyrna figs are 

 fertilized by Blastophaga through the medium of wild, inedible or " capri- 

 figs." 



Capsular: in the form of a capsule or little cup-like container. 



Caput: the head with ail its appendages. 



Capylus. a hump on the upper side of the segments of many larvae. 



