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GLOSSARY. 



Pilose, Piliferous, Piligerous, hairy, set with hairs. 



Pitchy, blackish-brown or brownish -black ; used loosely as a colour term. 



Plicate, furnished with a fold or folds. 



Polymorphous, of various forms. 



Pores, large isolated punctures. 



Productive, capable of being lengthened out. 



Propygidium, penultimate dorsal segment of the abdomen (visible in certain 

 Histeridae, etc., to which it is applied ; it is not used of the Brach- 

 elytra). 



Protuberant, projecting, of excrescences, etc. 



Pseudotetramerous, having apparently four joints, though really with five. 

 Pseudotrimerous, having apparently three joints, though really with four. 

 Pubescent, furnished with pubescence which may be close or scanty and consist 



of longer or shorter hairs. 

 Puuctiform, of a small impression or fovea, rather larger than an ordinary 



puncture. 



Puncture, a small depression on the surface, usually round. 

 Punctate, furnished with punctures. 



Punctate-striate, with rows of punctures taking the place of striaj ; opposed to 



striate- punctate, with punctured striae. 

 Pygidinm, last dorsal segment of the abdomen. 

 Pyriform, pear-shaped. 

 Quadrate, square. 



Quadri-, in composition, four times, e. g. quadrimaculate. 

 Ramose, branching. 



Raptorial, adapted for seizing and devouring prey 

 Rcflexed, bent upwards ; opposed to deflexcd 

 Remiform, oar-shaped. 

 Reniform, kidney-shaped. 



Reticulate, covered with a network of scratches or cross striae. 

 Rhomboidal, lozenge-shaped . 



Rostrum, a prolongation of the head between the eyes ; especially applied to 



the weevils. 

 Rostrate, in the form of a beak or rostrum. 

 Rufescent, Rufous, reddish. 

 Rugose, wrinkled. 

 Rugulose, slightly wrinkled. 

 Sac, a small bag or bladder. 

 Saltatorial, adapted for leaping. 

 Scansorial, adapted for climbing. 



Scape, the term applied to the first joint of the antennae, when it is much 



developed. 

 Scaphiform, boat-shaped. 



Sclerites, the chitinous plates into which certain parts of the external skeleton 



(e.g. the mesonotum of the Coleoptera) are divided. 

 Scrobes, lateral furrows on the rostrum, holding the base of the antennas when 



at rest. 



Sculpture, modifications of the surface in the way of punctuation, striae, 

 elevations, etc., as opposed to structure. 



