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BRITISH BEETLES. 
Suture. Junction of tlie wing-cases. 
Testaceous. Yellow with a tinge of brown; not a bright 
yellow. 
Tomentose. Cottony. 
Transverse. Broader than long. 
Truncate. Abruptly cut straight across. 
Tubercle. A small abrupt elevation : usually like a 
blunt tooth. 
Typical. That which presents the best abstract idea of 
any particular thing. 
Unicolorous. Of one colour. 
Variolose. Covered with impressions or pits like the 
markings left on the face by small-pox. 
Versicolorous. Variously coloured. 
Vesicant, Vesicatory. Raising a blister (applied to 
Mylalris, Cantharis, &c.). 
Villose. Covered with long raised closely-set hairs. 
Xylophagous. Wood-feeding. 
Very many of the above terms are used in conjunc- 
tion with each other, and then have a modified meaning, 
the predominating part of which rests with the last 
word used ; thus “ pitchy-testaceous ” means a yellow 
colour with a tinge of dark-brown. 
