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transverse lines.

Canescent: hoary, with more white than gray.

Canine teeth: applied to the sharp and conical teeth of mandibles in
predatory species: = dentes caninae.

Cantharidin: the substance that gives the meloid beetles their
blistering power composition, C10H12O4 (von Furth).

Canthus: the chitinous process more or less completely dividing the
eyes of some insects into an upper and lower half.

Canus: see canescent.

Capillaceous: capilla or hair-like.

Capillaris: a very slender, hair-like tube.

Capillary: long and slender like a hair: antennae in which the joints
are long, slender and loosely articulated.

Capillate -us: clothed with long slender hair; = coryphatus.

Capillii: hairs of the head that form a cap as in certain Trichoptera
and Tineid Lepidoptera.

Capillitium: the hood-like collar in some Noctuid moths, e.g.
Cucullia: see cucullus.

Capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club
is abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a spherical mass.

Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little
knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the
mouth of certain flies.

Capricorn beetle: a Cerambycid or long horned beetle.

Caprification: is that method or process through which the Smyrna
figs are fertilized by Blastophaga throughthe medium of wild, inedible
or "caprifigs."

Capsular: in the form of a capsule or little cup-like container.

Caput: the head with all its appendages.

Capylus: a hump on the Tupper side of the segments of many larva.

Carabidoid: applied to the second stage of a meloid larva, when it
resembles that of a Carabid.

Carbonarius: coal black.

Cardia: the gizzard; q.v.: also applied to the heart.

Cardiac: belonging or relating to the heart.

Cardiac valvule: see oesophageal valve.

Cardinal cell: Odonata; see triangle.

Cardioblasts: a string or row of cells in the embryo giving rise to the
heart or dorsal vessel.

Cardio-coelom: that part of the coelom that forms the pericardium.

Cardio-coelomic: applied to the venous openings from the heart to the
body cavity.

Cardo, pl. Cardines: the hinge or basal sclerite of the maxilla by
means of which it is jointed to the head.

Carina -ae: an elevated ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute.
Carinate: a surface having carinae.

Carinula -ae: a little carina or keel-like ridge; specifically, the
longitudina