X GLOSSAKY OF TECHXICAL TERMS. 



Geiiiciihdc, abruptly bent or elbowed (especially of tbe antenna;). 



Glabrous, smootli, hair-less and witliout distinct sculpture. 



Granulafe, bearinoj very small rounded elevations (granules). 



Humeral, relating to the shoulders of the eljtra. 



Intervals, the spaces between the strise or rows of punct\ires on the elytra, or 



between punctures on the ]5rothorax; on the elytra the intervals are 



numbered from the suture outwards, the first being that lying between 



the suture and the first stria; by some authors this interval is called 



tbe suture, and the next one the first interval. 

 hifersfices, the spaces between granules and tubercles ; by some authors this 



term is used iu tlie sense here attributed to intervals. 

 Lohale, having the mar-gin produced into a lobe, or rounded projection. 

 Moniliform, like a string of beads (applied to tlie joints of the antennae). 

 il/z/cr(«a;'f, terminating in a sharp point or spine (mucro) ; wlien applied to 



the tibia? it indicates the presence of a spine at the inner ajDical angle, 



as opposed to tmcinatc. 

 Obsolete, almost effaced. 

 Ogival, shaped like a pointed or Gothic arch ; a]iplied to the portion of tbe 



tirst visible ventral segment lying between tlie hind cosa^ (intercoxal 



process). 

 Pedunculate, liaving a neck-like or stalk-like sui)porting j^iece (peduncle). 

 Piceoiis, very dark reddish-brown to brownish-black. 

 Plicate, wrinkled into folds. 



Porrect, projecting straight forwards (of the rostrum). 

 Process, a projecting part. 

 Pubescence, a clothing of soft hairs. 



Punctate, set witli impressed points or small rounded pits (jDunctures). 

 Piincta.to-striatfl, bearing lines of punctures in grooves. 

 Quadrate, squnre. 



Bugose, liaving a rough irregular surface. 

 Scrobiculate, with small irregular furrows or pits. 

 Serrate, with teeth like a saw. 

 Seta, a stiff hair, often flattened or scale-like. 



Sliagreened, covered with minute raised dots, finer than granules. 

 Simiate, with a broad curved indentation. 

 Squa.mose, clothed with scales. 

 Stria, an impressed line. 



St riafo- punctate, bearing regular rows of punctures. 

 Strigose, bearing fine irregular scratches. 

 S^ib-, in composition signifies almost or slightly. 

 Sulcate, furrowed : sulci being broader and deeper than strice. 

 Suture, a line along which two edges meet (especially of the elytra'). 

 Testaceous, clear brownish-yellow, like the paler markings of tortoise-shell. 

 Transverse, broader than long. 



Truncate, ending abruptly, as if cut straight across. 

 Tubercle, a small abrupt elevation, larger than Vi granule. 

 Uncinate, applied to the tibia when the outer apical angle is ]>roduced so as to 



form an inwardly curved hook. 

 I'enfer, the lower surface of the abdomen only. 

 Vermiculatc. with irretrular sinuous markings or stri;c. 



