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Corium. — The corneous or coraceous parts of the 

 Hemelytra. (L. leather.) 



Cornea.— The strong transparent skin of the eye, 

 through which the rays of light pass. (L. 

 corneus, horny, from cornu, a horn.) 



Cornea facets. — The divisions of the compound eye. 

 (L. cornu, and facies.) 



Corneate. — Horned. (L. cornu, a horn.) 



Corneous. — Horn-like in substance ; horny. (L. 

 from cornu.) 



Cornicle. — A short bhmt horn, or rounded pro- 

 tuberance. (L. corniculum, dimin. of cornu, a 

 horn.) 



Cornicles, nectaries or siphuncles. — Horny adjuncts 

 to the sixth abdominal segment of Aphides 

 (Linn.), which constitute the sheaths of certain 

 excretory ducts, the delicate walls of which 

 traverse their interior. They rise from the 

 dorsal surface into more or less long moveable 

 erect tubes, which may be either straight, curved, 

 or vasiform. 



Corniform. — Horn-shaped ; long, mucronate, or 

 pointed. (L. cornu, and form.) 



Corium. — The whole of the elytra, lying outside the 

 clavus, and bounded at the apex by the 

 membrane, of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 

 (Saunders.) (L. the hide, rind, skin.) 



Cornutus. — Horned ; in the form of a horn. (L. 

 cornutus, horned, from cornu, a horn.) 



