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concavus, when the surface gradually declines towards its centre, which thus 



becomes the deepest. See convexus. 

 continue, neat, fine. 



concolor, equally colored. See discolor. 

 eonduplicatus, doubled, or folded together. 

 confertim, crowded, clustered. See sparsely. 

 confluens, running into each other. 

 confuse, a marking with indefinite outlines. 

 congener, belonging to the same genus. 

 congestus, heaped together, e. g. points forming a spot. 

 eonglobatus, with all diameters nearly equal. 

 conglomeratus, congregate. 

 conicus, conical, a round body, its base being a Hat circle, and its apex a 



point. 

 coniferus, a surface bearing a cone. 

 conjugatus, consisting of a single pair. 

 conjunctim, united, taken together. 

 connatus, grown together, e. g. the elytra of Amblychila are connate at the 



suture. 

 connivent, convergent or approaching - ; closing; e. g. the elytra of most cole- 



optera. 

 conspersus, see adspersus, dispersed. 

 conspicuus, distinct ; to be seen without a glass. 



conspureatus, confusedly sprinkled with differently colored or darker spots. 

 contiguus, touching, placed so near as to touch. See approximate. 

 contorted* twisted ; incumbent upon each other in an oblique direction. 

 convergent, see connivent. 



convexus, when a surface rises gradually towards its center, which thus becom- 

 es the highest of the whole. 

 convolutus, rolled or twisted spirally ; (wings) wrapping around the body, the 



outer surface being convex. See revolute, involute. 

 converging, approaching each other towards the tip. See connivent. 

 copiosus, copious, dense. 



copula, copulation, the act of uniting sexually. 

 cordatus, heart-shaped ; also a triangular shape with the corners of the base 



rounded. 

 coriaceus, leather-like, thick, tough and somewhat rigid. See membran&tts, 



corneus. 

 corlar'ius, leather-like, sculptured. 

 corneus, of horny substance, resembling horn. 

 corniforniis, horn-shaped, long, mucronate or pointed. 

 cornutus, furnished with a horn. 

 corona, crown ; a crown-like appearance. 

 coronatus, having the tip crown-like. 

 corpus, the body. 

 corrigatus, wrinkled. 

 cortitinus, bark-like, either in color or sculpture ; e. g. the anterior wings of 



many insects. 

 corvinus, crow-black, a deep shining black with a green lustre. 

 eoryphatus, — capillatus. 

 costa, the thickened anterior margin of a wing between base and apex ; costal 



margin. 

 costatus, ribbed ; marked with elevated thickened lines with wider intervals 



between them, than Uneatus. 

 costulatus. less prominently ribbed than costatus. 



coxa, the globular or oblong basal piece of the legs, being entirely or partly 



hidden in the acetabula ; it is fixa, immoveable as in Dytiscus or libera, 



moveable, free as in Greotrypes. 



cranium or cava, skull ; the head with all its parts except he collum, neck. 



crateriform, somewhat like calathiform, but not so much inLated and rather 



approaching infundibuliform. See urceolate. 



