128 AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



Bodu, includes every part of the insect, and is divided into head, 

 thorax, and ahdomen. 



Boreal, of or belonging to tlie north. 



Botryoidal, clustered like a bunch of grapes. 



Brachial nervures, those nervures of the anterior wing that ori- 

 ginate at the thorax, add run somewhat parallel with the inte- 

 rior edge, towards the posterior angle or j^osterior edge, often 

 connected with the cubital cellules by means of the recurrent 

 nervures. 



Bronze, the color of old brass. 



Brunneus, pure very dark brown. 



Bullate, blistered. 



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Caducus, shedding ; easily and quickly falling off. 



Cseruleus, color of the sky ; sky-blue. 



Csesius, pale blue, approaching gray. 



Calathiform, bowl-shaped : hemispherical and concave. See 



crateriforni, proctd!fo7-m. 

 Calcarate, having a spur. 



Calyculate, double-cupped : one cup placed within another. 

 Gampanulate, bell-shaped : more or less ventricose at the base, 



and a little recurved at the margin. 

 Canaliculate, channelled : excavated longitudinally, with a con- 

 cave line in the middle. 

 Cancellate, or cancelled, cross-barred ; latticed ; having longi- 

 tudinal lines or grooves decussate by transverse ones. 

 Canus, hoary, with more white than gray. 



Capillary, hair-like; long and slender like a hair, '^qq filiform. 

 Capitate, having a head; terminating in a little head or knob; 



it differs from clavate by a more abrupt enlargement. 

 Capitulum, the dilated or labiated termination of a prohoscis ; 



the enlarged tip of the halteres. 

 Caput, the head. 



Cardo, or cardines, in Hymenoptera, is a transverse corneous 

 body, situated between the base of the maxillse and the lo7'a; 

 they are mentioned by Swammerdam as organs, by which, in 

 conjunction with the fulcrum, the prohoscis is united to the 

 head. 

 Carina, a keel. 



