l 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 shore 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 anal segment or
appendage terminating the abdomen.
Caudad: toward the posterior end of the body, along the median line.
Caudal: pertaining to the posterior or anal extremity.
Caudal setae: long, thread-like processes at the end of the abdomen in
many europterous and some other insects; = anal filaments.
Caudate: with tail-like extensions or processes.
Caudo-cephalic: in a line from th
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