34 ELEMENTARY TERMS. 



PERFORATE, knobs or joints flattened into circular 

 plates, so that the antenna seems to pass through their 

 centre. 



MONILIFORM, joints more or less globular, so that the 

 whole in some manner resembles a string of beads. 



SERRATE, joints so formed that the sides of the antennse 

 resemble saw-teeth. 



PECTINATE, comb-form, numerous fine processes along 

 one or both sides, pointing somewhat towards the tip* 



BARBATE, processes pointing backward. 



FISSILE, split at the tip into several flat separations. 



PRISMATIC, having two or more flat sides. 



DIFFRACTED, twice bent ; first outwardly, then for- 

 ward, as in ants. 



CARUNCLE, fleshy protuberance on the heads of some 

 birds, as tnrkies, 



XL RELATING TO PROBOSCES, NOSES, TEN- 



TACULA. &c. 



PROBOSCIS, elongated tubular snout or sucker. 

 TENTACULA, the arms, or feelers, of insects and vermes. 

 PALPI, the feelers attached to mouths of insects. 

 LENTICULAR, resembling small lentils which are some- 

 what the form of the convex glasses in spectacles. 



XII. RELATING TO HAIR, FEATHERS, &c. 



CINEREOUS, greyish, colour of ashes. 



SCAPULARS, feathers descending down each side of the 



back. 

 INTERSCAPULARS, the back-feathers, between the bases 



of the wings. 



MAILED, covered with a kind of long hard armor. 

 GATAPHRACTED, callous skin, or cartilagenous scales. 



