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GLOSSARY. 



Fovea, a large round depression on the surface. 



Foveate or Foveolate, furnished with such depressions (larger or smaller). 

 Fulvous, of a tawny-yellowish colour, like a lion's skin. 



Funiculus, the joints of the antenna between the scape and the club : especially 



applied to the Ourculionidse. 

 Fuscous, brown or tawny-brown. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped, broadest in the middle, and gradually narrowed in 

 front and behind to a more or less pronounced point. 



Gena, o'r cheek, the lateral part of the head just below the eyes. 



Geniculate, elbowed, abruptly bent (of antennae in which the first joint, or 

 scape, is much longer than the others). 



-gerous, bearing or carrying, as setigerous. 



Gibbous or Gibbose, hump-backed, very convex. 



Glabrous, smooth, hairless, and without evident sculpture ; glabrous surfaces 



in Coleoptera are usually shiny. 

 Granulate, Granulose (of sculpture), with small rounded elevations. 

 Gressorial, adapted for walking. 



Gular, pertaining to the throat (e. g. " gular suture "). 



Heteromcrous, with the posterior tarsi composed of fewer joints than the 



anterior and intermediate ones. 

 Hirsute, set with thick long hairs. 



Hispid, set with short erect bristles, which are sometimes almost spinose. 

 Homogeneous, forming a complete and mutually related whole. 

 Humerus, the shoulder. 

 Humeral, relating to the shoulder. 



Imagined, relating to the imago or perfect state of an insect. 

 Imbricate, overlapping one another, like tiles on a roof. 

 Impunctate, without punctuation. 

 Incrassate, thickened, 



lufuscate, darkened, more or less fuscous in colour. 



Inquiline, a dweller in the nest of an alien species (e. g. the many Coleoptera 



that are found living in ants nests). 

 Insertion, point of attachment of moveable parts (e. g. antennas). 

 Instar, a stage in metamorphosis. 



Interstices, the spaces between the striae or rows of punctures on the elytra 



often used for the next term. 

 Intervals, the spaces on the head and thorax between the sculpture ; used by 



some authors in the sense of the preceding term. 

 Iridescent, exhibiting prismatic colours, changing in different lights. 

 Juxta, in composition indicates near, nsji/xta-ocular. 

 Laciniate, divided into strips. 

 Lagenoid, flask-shaped. 

 Lamina, a thin plate. 



Laminate or Lamellate, furnished with such plates (larger or smaller). 

 Lanceolate, in the form of a lance-head. 

 Lateral, pertaining to the side. 

 Lignivorous, feeding on wood. 



