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



thorax, and abdomen. 

 Boreal, of or belonging to the north. 

 Botryoidal, clustered like a bunch of grapes. 

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

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

 ■ rior edge, towards the posterior angle or posterior 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. 



C. 

 Cadmus, shedding ; easily and quickly falling off. 

 Cseruleus, color of the sky ; sky-blue. 

 Csesius, pale blue, approaching gray. 

 Calathi/orm, bowl-shaped : hemispherical and concave. See 



cratenform, procidiform. 

 Calcarate, having a spur. 



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

 Campamdate, 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. See 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 pr-oboscis ; 



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 maxillae and the lor a; 

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

 conjunction with the fulcrum, the proboscis is united to the 

 head. 

 Carina, a keel. 



