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Cellule, a portion of the wing included between nervures. See 

 radial cellule. 



Cernuous, bent ; the apex bent downward. See nutant. 



Cespitose, matted together. 



Cheek, the gena ; a portion of the head beneath the eyes on 

 each side. 



Chela, the terminal portion of a foot, which has a moveable 

 lateral toe like the claw of a crab. 



Chrysalis, the second state of the insect from the egg; particu- 

 larly the second state of Lepidopterous insects, of which 

 caterpillar or eruca is the first ; the pupa. 



Cicatrix, a scar; an elevated, rigid spot. 



Ciliate, fringed ; set with parallel hairs, bristles, &c. 



Cinereous, ash-colour; gray tinged a little with blackish; the 

 colour of wood ashes. 



Cingula, a coloured band. 



Circinal, spirally rolled inwards and downwards, as in the lingua 

 of Lepidoptera. 



Class, one of the principal divisions in a system or arrangement 

 of natural bodies. 



Clavate, club-shaped ; gradually becoming thicker towards the 

 end; See capitate. 



Claw, the unguis. 



Clypeus, the superior portion of the head in Coleopterous in- 

 sects. 



Coadunate, joined together at base ; two or more joined to- 

 gether; (elytra) permanently united at the suture. 



Coarctate, contracted ; compact ; opposed to effuse ; (metamor- 

 phose) that species of change in which the pupa assumes a 

 cylindrical shape, all the members of the body being concealed 

 as in the family of Hippoboscar See incomplete, semicom- 

 plete. 



Cocardes, retractile vesicular bodies on each side of the stethi- 

 dium of insects of the genus Malachius. 



Coccineous, the colour of the blossom of the saffron. 



Cochleate, twisted spirally like a screw, or a univalve shell. 



Cocoon, a follicle. 



Coenogonous, oviparous at one season of the year, and ovovi- 

 viparous at another, as the Aphides. 



Coleoptera, the first order of insects, having coriaceous elytra, 

 not lapped one over the other at tip ; coriaceous elytra. 



Collar, the collum. 



Collare, the somewhat elevated posterior part of the collum. 



Collum* the neck or collar; the anterior segment of the trunk 



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