EXPLANATION OF TERMS 



condite, concealed ; retractile, capable of being withdrawn ; 

 simple, having but one point ; or vaginate, inclosed in a bivalve 

 sheath ; it is composed of valvas, vagina, and spicula. 



^Acuminated, tapering to a point; a point lengthened out. 



Acute, sharp pointed. 



tftdnafa, connected ; adhering or growing together ; adjoining ; 

 (abdomen) attached to the thorax without the intervention of 

 a petiole. 



Adpressed, contiguous ; pressed to, or laid to. 



JEquata, equal. 



JEroscepsin, a supposed unknown sense, of which the antennae 

 are, by some, believed to be the organs. 



JEruginous, the colour of verdegrise ; light bluish-green. 



/?/a?, wings. 



Alated, winged ; furnished with wings, or with projecting bodies 

 somewhat like wings. 



Albidus, a dusky white. 



.Albus, white. 



Alternate, so placed that between two on one side, there is but 

 one on the opposite side ; or a series of spots on the chequer- 

 board would be said to be alternately black, or alternately 

 white. See opposite. 



Alveolate, furnished with cells. 



Alveole, a cell like that of a honeycomb. 



Ambulatory , formed for walking. See saltatory, cursory. 



Anal angle, the inner posterior angle of the inferior wings of 

 the Lepidoptera. 



Anastomosing, inosculating, or running into each other like 

 veins. 



Anastomosis, a spot in the upper wing, at the branching of the 

 nervures, near the costal edge ; the stigma; in general this 

 word is used to indicate the connection of any two nervures 

 of the wing, by means of a transverse nervure. 



Anceps, two-edged, very similar to ensiform. 



Ancipital, having two opposite edges or angles. 



Annulata, or annulosa, one of the four great types into which 

 Cuvier divides the animal kingdom; it consists of those ani- 

 mals whose bodies are more or less divided transversely into 

 segments. It includes the classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Arach- 

 nicles, Insecta, and Vermes. 



Annulate, or annulated, furnished with coloured rings; marked 

 with differently coloured annulations. 



Annulus, a ring; the circumference of the gula in which the 

 lora terminates ; a term applied to coloured rings upon the 



