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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.
Ca.n.u.s: 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 ma.s.s.
Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little k.n.o.b 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 longitudinal elevation on the middle of snout in Rhynchophora.
Carinulate: a surface with small and rather numerous carinae.
Cariose -ous: corroded; appearing as if worm-eaten.
Carminate -ed: mixed or tinged with carmine.
Carneous -eus: flesh-colored [salmon with a little carmine].
Carnivorous: a feeder upon flesh food.
Cariose -us: of a soft, fleshy substance.
Carolinian faunal area: that area of the upper austral zone comprising the larger part of the Middle States (except the mountains), s. e. So.
Dakota, east. Nebraska, Kansas and part of Oklahoma; nearly all of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland and Delaware; more than half of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and New Jersey and large areas in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and South Ontario: extends along Atlantic Coast from near mouth of Chesapeake Bay to Southern Connecticut and sends narrow arms up the valleys of the Hudson and Connecticut. A narrow arm follows the east sh.o.r.e of Lake Michigan to Grand Traverse Bay.
Carpus: the pterostigma of Odonata: the extremity of the radius and cubitus of the primaries: that point in the wings at which they are tratsversely folded.
Cartilaginous: of the consistency of cartilage or gristle.
Caruncle: a soft, naked, fleshy excrescence or protuberance.
Caryophylleous: nut or clove brown [Indian red].
Castaneous: chestnut brown; bright red-brown [dragon's blood with a slight admixture of vermilion].
Castes: the various forms or kinds of matured individuals among social insects as workers, soldiers, queens, etc.
Cataphracted: invested with a hard callous skin, or with scales closely united. Catch: in Collembola, = tenaculum, q.v.
Catenate: with longitudinal connected elevations like links in a chain.
Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.
Caterpillar: the term applied to the larvae of Lepidoptera.
Catervatum: by heaps.
Caudal: the tail: any process resembling a tail: the pointed end of the abdomen in plant lice: any extension of the a.n.a.l segment or appendage terminating the abdomen.
Caudad: toward the posterior end of the body, along the median line.
Caudal: pertaining to the posterior or a.n.a.l extremity.