416 GLOSSARY. 



Carinate, keeled ; having a longitudinal prominence like the keel 



of a boat. 

 Cameous, flesh-colored. 

 Caterpillar, the larva. 

 Cauda, the tail. 

 Caudate, tailed : — ^generally applied to the posterior wings of Lepi- 



doptera to indicate tail-like projections. 

 Cell, usually in Lepidoptera the space between the subcostal and 



median veins ; the discal cell. 

 Chitine, the hard part on the outside of insects. 

 Chrysalis, the third stage of the insect, counting the egg one. 

 Cilice, fringes. 

 Ciliate, fringed. 

 Cinereous, ash color ; gray tinged a little with blackish ; the color 



of wood ashes. 

 Cingula, a colored band. 

 Clavate, club-shaped. 

 Coalesce, to grow together or unite. 

 Collar, scales back of the head, forming more or less of a ring ; the 



neck. 

 Concolorous, of the same color, as the body agreeing in color with 



the wings. 

 Confluent, running into each other. 

 Connivent, converging or approaching. 

 Contiguous, touching ; placed so near as to touch. 

 Convergent, approaching each other towards the tip. 

 Cordate, heart-shaped. 

 Corrugated, wrinkled. 

 Costa, the thickened anterior part of the wing from the base to the 



apex. 

 Coxa, the jointed base of the leg. 

 Cremaster, the anal hooks of the chrysalis, which fasten into silk t« 



hold the chrysalis in place. 

 Crenate, scalloped. 

 Cuneiform, wedge-shaped. 

 Cupreous, coppery ; the color of copper. 

 Cyaneus, dark blue, like Prussian blue. 

 Dentate, toothed. 



Diaphanous, semi-transparent; clear. 

 Dichotomous, forked • dividing by pairs. 



