ure.
Chelate: bearing a cheat or claw; applied when claws are capable of
being drawn down or back upon the last tarsal joint.
Chiasma: an X-like crossing of nerve fibers.
Chirotype: a specimen upon which a manuscript name is based.
Chitin: the material forming the hard parts of the insect body; it is a
secretion (or a metamorphosis?) of the epidermis, differing from horn
by its insolubility in boiling liquor potassae: = elytra, entomolin.
Chitinogenous: applied to that layer of epidermal cells which secretes
the chitin.
Chitinization: the process of depositing or filling with chitin.
Chitinized: filled in with or hardened by chitin.
Chitinous: composed of chitine {Scanner's comment: sic} or like
it in texture: as a color term is amber yellow.
Chlorophane: an oily, greenish yellow pigment found in insects.
Chlorophyll: the green coloring matter of plants; one of the
substances found in the blood of insects.
Chordotonal: responsive to vibrations; applied to the ear-like
structures in Orthoptera.
Chorion: the shell or covering membrane of an insect egg.
Chromatin: the minute granules that make up the chromoplasm of a
cell nucleus.
Chromosome: one of the segments into which the chromoplasmic
filaments of a cell nucleus breaks up just before indirect division.
Chrysalis or -id: applied specifically to the intermedial stage between
larva and adult in butterflies: see pupa.
Chrysargyrus: silvery gilt.
Chyle: the food-mass after it has passed through the guard and is
mixed with the secretions of the salivary glands and caecal structures,
ready to be assimilated.
Chylific ventricle: the true stomach in which the chyle is prepared and
digestion begins.
Cibarian: referring to the mouth parts.
Cicatricose: a surface having scars with elevated margins like those of
small-pox.
Cicatrix: a scar: an elevated, rigid spot.
Cilia: fringes; series of moderate or thin hair arranged in tufts or
single lines; thin scattered hair on a surface or margin.
Ciliate: fringed: set with even, parallel hairs or soft bristles.
Cilium, pl. Cilia: q.v.
Cimicine: an oily fluid of disagreeable odor secreted by certain
Heteroptera and used as a means of defense.
Cimier: the head crest in Pierid chrysalids.
Cinetus: with a colored band:= cingulatus.
Cinereous: ash-colored; gray tinged with blackish [ultra ash gray].
Cinerescent: ashen in color or appearance.
Cingula -um: a colored band or b
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