TERMS USED IN DESCRIPTIONS OF COLEOPTERA. 25 
Cursorial. Adapted for running. 
Defiexed. Bent down. 
Dentate. Toothed. 
Disc. The middle, most elevated part. 
Emarginate. Notched. 
Entire. Without notch or projection. 
Farinose. Mealy. 
Fascia. A coloured baud. 
Ferruginous. Brick-red ; rust-red. 
Filiform. Thread-shaped. 
Flabellate. Fan-shaped. 
Fossorial. Adapted for digging. 
Fovea. A large depression on the surface. 
Funiculus. The joints between the base and club of the 
antenme. 
Fuscous. Brown, or tawny-brown. 
Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 
Geniculate. Elbowed, or kneed. 
Gibbous. Hump-backed, very convex. 
Glabrous. Unpunctured, smooth, and hairless. 
Granulate. With small rounded-off elevations. 
Gressorial. Adapted for walking. 
Hirsute. Set with thick long hairs. 
Hispid. Set with short bristles. 
Humerus. The shoulder. 
Humeral. Relating, or near to the shoulder. 
Hyaline. Glassy. 
Imbricate. Overlapping one another like tiles on a 
roof. 
Incrassate. Thickened. 
Infuscate. Darkened. 
Interstices. The spaces between punctures or striuj. 
Iridescent. Exhibiting prismatic colours. 
