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 bands. Circulate -us: having a cingulum or collar: see also cinetus. Cinnabarine: [vermilion red]. Cinnamomeous: cinnamon brown [burnt sienna]. Cinema: see Thysanura, of which this forms a group including the bristle-tails, and for which it has been used as an equivalent. Circinal: spirally rolled like a watch-spring or a butterfly tongue. Circiter: about, or round-about. Circular: round like a circle. Circumgenital glands: small circular glands with an excretory orifice at tip, disposed in groups about the genital orifice in Diaspinae. Circumoesophageal commissures: those cords or nerve fibres connecting the suboesophageal ganglion with the main trunk of nervous system. Circumsepted: with a vein all around the wing. Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose. Cirrose -us: with somewhat dense curled hair. Cirrus: a curled lock of hair placed on a thin stalk. Citrine -us: lemon yellow [chrome yellow]. Cladocerous: with branched horns or antennae. Clasper: a chitinized process, free or attached to the inner sides of harpes, valves or other lateral pieces, serving to hold the female parts during copulation: = the harpers of some authors. Claspette: in genitalia of male culicids, the inner basal lobe of side piece; q.v. Clasp-filament: in male genitalia of culicids the articulated appendage or terminal segment of side-piece or clasp; sometimes bears an articulated point or apex and then = articulated apex. Class: a division of the animal kingdom lower than a sub-kingdom and higher than an order: e.g. the "Class Insecta."