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Complemental: applied to sexed forms in the Termitidtz, capable of repro- 

 duction, but which do not reach the winged stage; the females are less 

 fertile than the forms that become winged and several may be used in one 

 nest to replace a lost queen or mature female. 



Complicant: when one elytron extends over the other and partially covers it. 



Complicate: longitudinally laid in folds: intricate as opposed to simple. 



Component: one part of a combined whole. 



Compound: made up of many similar or dissimilar parts. 



Compressed: flattened laterally. 



Concatenate: linked together in a chain-like series. 



Concave: hollowed out; the interior of a sphere as opposed to the outer or 

 convex surface: concave veins are those that occupy the bottoms of 

 troughs or grooves on the upper surface of a wing ; see convex veins. 



Concavo-convex: hollowed out or concave on one surface, rounded or convex 

 on the other ; like a small segment of a hollow sphere. 



Concentrated: gathered together at one point; intensified or strengthened by 

 evaporation. 



Conchate: applied to the shell-like inflation of the auricle in the cephalic 

 tibia of Orthoptera. 



Concinne: neat; fine. 



Concolorous: of the same general color. 



Concretion: a massing together of parts or particles. 



Concurrent: applied to a vein which arises separately, runs into another and 

 does not again separate. 



Conduplicate: doubled or folded together. 



Condyle: a process which articulates the base of the mandible to the head: 

 in general any process by means of which an appendage is articulated into 

 a pan or cavity. 



Confertim: closely clustered or crowded. 



Conflect: crowded; clustered; opposed to sparse. 



Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one outline. 



Confused: a marking with indefinite outlines: a running together as of 

 lines and spots without definite pattern. 



Congener: a species belonging to the same genus. 



Congeneric: applied to a species agreeing in all characters of generic value 

 with others compared with it. 



Congested: heaped together; crowded: distended. 



Conglobate: gathered together in a ball or sphere. 



Conglobate gland: a glandular appendage of male sexual organs in Or- 

 thoptera, opening upon one of the external structures. 



Conglomerate: congregated; massed together. 



Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point. 



Conico-acuminate: in the form of a long, pointed cone. 



Coniferous: a surface which bears cone-like processes. 



Conjugate: to bring together in pairs: consisting of a single pair. 



Conjugation: the union of pairs; usually applied to the merging of the male 

 and female elements. 



