26 EXPLANATION OF TERMS 



Cinctus: with a colored band: = cingulatus. 



Cinereous: ash-colored; gray tinged with blackish [ultra ash gray]. 



Cinerescent: ashen in color or appearance. 



Cingula-um: a colored band or bands. 



Cingulate -us: having a cingulum or collar: see also cinctus. 



Cinnabarine: [vermilion red]. 



Cinnamomeous: cinnamon brown [burnt sienna]. 



Cinura: see Thysamira, of which this forms a group including the bristle- 

 tails, and for which it has been used as an equivalent. 



Circinal: spirally rolled like a watch-spring or a butterfly tongue. 



Circiter: about, or round-about. 



Circular: round like a circle. 



Circumgenital glands: small circular glands with an excretory orifice at tip, 

 disposed in groups about the genital orifice in Diaspince. 



Circumcesophageal commissures: those cords or nerve fibres connecting the 

 suboesophageal ganglion with the main trunk of nervous system. 



Circumsepted: with a vein all around the wing. 



Cirrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may 

 not be ciliated : see plumose. 



Cirrose-us: with somewhat dense curled hair. 



Cirrus: a curled lock of hair placed on a thin stalk. 



Citrine -us: lemon yellow [chrome yellow]. 



Cladocerous: with branched horns or antennae. 



Clasper: a chitinized process, free or attached to the inner sides of harpes, 

 valves or other lateral pieces, serving to hold the female parts during copu- 

 lation : = the harpes of some authors. 



Claspette: in genitalia of <$ culicids, the inner basal lobe of side piece; q. v. 



Clasp-filament: in d genitalia of culicids, the articulated appendage or ter- 

 minal segment of side-piece or clasp; sometimes bears an articulated point 

 or apex and then = articulated apex. 



Class: a division of the animal kingdom lower than a sub-kingdom and 

 higher than an order : e. g., the " Class Insecta." 



Classification: is the systematic arrangement of insects (or other animals or 

 plants) in series showing their relation or agreement in structure, life 

 habits or other characters forming the basis of the " classification." 



Clathrate: latticed or lattice-like in appearance. 



Claustrum: the structure uniting the wings in flight, whether by hooks, by 

 a thickening of the margin, or by a jugum. 



Clava: a club; the enlarged apical joints of a clubbed antenna: = clavola. 



Claval suture: Hcmiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating the clavus. 



Clavate: clubbed: thickening gradually toward the tip. 



Clavate hairs: in Collembola, =tenent hairs. 



Clavicornia: that series of beetles having the antennae more or less distinctly 

 enlarged or clubbed at tip. 



Clavicular lobe: Homoptcra; that portion of hind wing behind anal veins. 



Claviform: club-like in form; specifically, in Noctuid moths an elongate spot 

 or mark extending from the t. a. line through the subrr.edian interspace, 

 toward and sometimes to the t. p. line. 



