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Coleoptera. — A family of hexapoda, the beetle 

 tribe, an order of insects liaving elytra which 

 serve as a covering and protection for the true 

 wings. (Gr. koleos, a sheath, and pferon, a 

 wing.) 



CoUare.* — The collar, the short corneous cylindrical 

 tube formed by the occiput being drawn out. 

 (L. a collar.) 



Collaterial Glands. — Two much branched and con- 

 voluted tubular organs situated behind the 

 bursa copulatrix, and partly resting under the 

 fifth abdominal ganglion. (L. collateralis ; 

 co-con ; lateralis, pertaining to the side.) 



Colleterial glands. — Glands in the females of certain 

 insects which secrete a glutinous substance 

 which fastens the ova together. (L. colleteri{um).) 



CoUeterium. — The colleterial glands. (Mod. Lat. 

 colleteritim, of, or pertaining to the colleterium 

 of insects.) 



Collembola. — ^An order of Apterous insects, now 

 united with Thysanura under the order Aptera. 

 (Gr. Tcolla, glue, and emhole, a throwing or putting 

 in, so called because they have an organ enabling 

 them to fasten to the part upon wliich they are 

 standing.) 



Colligate. — Fixed to any part so as to have no 

 separate motion of its own. (L. collkjo, to bind 

 together.) 



* King, Kirby and Spence, apply this term to the prothorax 

 of the Hymenoptera. 



