34 ELEMENTARY TERMS. 
PERFOLIATE, 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 on 
resemble saw-teeth. 
PECTINATE, comb-form, numerous fine processes aac 
one or both sides, pointing somewhat towards the tip. 
BaRBATE, processes pointing backward, 
FisstLe. 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 turkies, 
XI. RELATING TO PROBOSCES, NOSES, TEN- 
TACULA. &c. 
Progosctis, elongated tubular snout or sucker. 
TENTACULA, the arms, or {celers, of insects and vermes. 
Paper, the feelers attached to mouths of insects. 
LENTICULAR, resembling small lentils which are some-_ 
What the form ofthe convex glasses in spectacles. 
XIL RELATING TO HAIR, FEATHERS, &c. 
CINEREOUS, greyish, colour of ashes. 
ScAPuLARS, feathers descending down Ts side of the 
back. 
INTERSCAPULARS, the back-feathers, between the bases 
of the wings. 
MatLep, covered with a kind of long hard armor. 
CATAPHRACTED, callous skin, or cartilagenous scales, 
