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GLOSSAEY. 



Asymmetrical, with one side of the body different from the other side (of certain 



species of Languriince, etc.). 

 Attenuated, gradually diminished or lessened. 



Base, the root or bottom upon which an organ stands : for its use for des- 

 criptive purposes see " apex." 



Bi- % in composition signifies in two parts as "bifid," cleft in two parts, or a 

 doubling, as " bisetose," with two setas. 



Buccal, relating to the mouth. 



Calcar, a spur or strong pointed spine. 



Callus or callosity, a projection or elevation. 



Callose, furnished with such projections or elevations. 



Campodeiform or Campodeoid, shaped like a Campodea (an active Thysanurid 

 insect, supposed to ba the ancestor of the Coleoptera): of certain 

 Coleopterous larvae. 



Canaliculate, with one or more channelled furrows. 



Ca.nth.us, the corneous piece that often cuts into and sometimes divides the 

 eye. 



Capillary, slender and hair-like (usually of antenna?). 

 Carina, a keel or longitudinal raised line. 

 Carinate or carinated, furnished with a carina. 

 Castaneous, chestnut-coloured . 

 Catenulate or cateniform, chain-like. 

 Cheliform, pincer-shaped. 



Chitinous, of a rigid consistency ; opposed to membranous. 

 Cicatrix, a large scar or scar-like impression. 



Ciliate, furnished with cilia or fringes of hair more or less parallel, like the 

 eyelid. 



Cinereous, of an ashy-grey colour. 



Clava, the club or knob of the antennae (especially characteristic of the 



Clavicornia). 

 Clavate or Claviform, clubbed or club-shaped. 

 Clypeiform, shield- like. 

 Collum, neck. 



Common, extending over two neighbouring portions of the body, e. g. " elytra 



with a common spot." 

 Compressed, flattened by lateral pressure as opposed to " depressed.*' 

 Concolorous, uniform in colour. 



Confluent, running into one another, of colour-patterns or of sculpture. 

 Connate, soldered together. 



Convoluted, in whorls, like the impression of a finger-tip : of a certain kind of 



sculpture. 

 Cop~rophagous, feeding on excrement. 

 Cordate, Cordiform, heart-shaped. 

 Coriaceous, having a surface like that of leather. 

 Corneous, horny, of the consistence of horn. 

 Costate, furnished with elevated costae or ribs. 

 Costiform, in the shape of a raised rib. 



Cotyloid cavities, the cavities in which the coxa? move and with which the 

 form a ball and socket joint. 



