GLOSSARY, 
OR DEFINITION OF THE TERMS MOST COMMONLY USED 
IN DESCRIBING INSECTS. 
Abbreviated , shortened ; not reaching the end of a given part, 
Abdomen , the hindermost division of the body. See page 14. 
Abnormal, irregular, exceptional. 
Abrupt , sudden, not gradual. 
Acicular , needle-shaped. 
Aculeate , prickly. 
Acute . sharp-pointed. 
Adephagous, ravenous, predaceous. 
Annulate , furnished with rings. 
Antenna, (plural antenna;), appendagea to the head, commonly called the horns. See page 10. 
Apex , the terminal point. 
Approximate , near to, br near together. 
Apterous, without wings. 
Articulate , divided into joints. 
Attenuated, tapering. 
Base, the part furthest from the apex ; the base of the thorax is the part where it joins the elytra. 
Bifid , cleft ; cloven in two. 
Bilobate , divided into two lobes. 
Capitate , terminating in a little head or knob. 
Carinate , furnished with a keel or ridge. 
Cinereous, ash-colored. 
Clavate, club-shaped, enlarged towards the end. 
Claws, the pair of hooks at the end of the feet. 
Olypeus, the anterior margin of the head. 
Compressed, flattened laterally. 
Confluent, running into one another. 
Contiguous, touching each other. i 
Coriaceous, like leather, hard, but flexible. 
Corrugated . wrinkled. 
Coxa, the basal joint of the leg, (plural coxa.) See pages 14 and 27. 
Crenate , scalloped. 
Cylindrical, long and round, of the same thickness throughout. 
Decumbent, bending down. 
Deflected, bent down. 
Dehiscent, gaping, separated at the tips. 
Dense, thickly crowded. 
Dentate, furnished with acute teeth. 
Depressed, flattened downwards. Compare with compressed. 
Diffuse, spreading, not distinctly circumscribed. 
Digitate, finger-like, divided like the fingers nearly to the base. 
Disk, the upper middle part of a given surface. 
Distant, standing considerably apart. Compare with remote. 
Divaricate, spreading apart. 
