Comminute: to grind up fine: to reduce to minute particles. Commissure: the nerves connecting two ganglia: the point of meeting or union of two bodies: a bridge connecting two bodies or structures; e.g. tracheal tubes. Common: of frequent occurrence: occurring on two adjacent parts: a band or fascia is common when it crosses both primaries and secondaries. Communal: applied to life or dwelling in colonies like ants and bees. Comose: ending in a tuft or brush. Complanate: compressed: flattened above and below: = deplanate. Complemental: applied to sexed forms in the Termitidae, capable of reproduction, but which do not reach the winged stage; the females are less fertile than the forms that become winged and several may be used in one nest to replace a lost queen or mature female. Complicant: when one elytron extends over the other and partially covers it. Complicate: longitudinally laid in folds: intricate as opposed to simple. Component: one part of a combined whole. Compound: made up of many similar or dissimilar parts. Compressed: flattened laterally. Concatenate: linked together in a chain-like series. Concave: hollowed out; the interior of a sphere as opposed to the outer or convex surface: concave veins are those that occupy the bottoms of troughs or grooves on the upper surface of a wing; see convex veins. Concavo-convex: hollowed out or concave on one surface, rounded or convex on the other; like a small segment of a hollow sphere. Concentrated: gathered together at one point; intensified or strengthened by evaporation. Conchate: applied to the shell-like inflation of the auricle in the cephalic tibia of Orthoptera. Concinne: neat; fine. Concolorous: of the same general color. Concretion: a massing together of parts or particles. Concurrent: applied to a vein which arises separately, runs into another and does-not again separate. Conduplicate: doubled or folded together. Condyle: a process which articulates the base of the mandible to the head: in general any process by means of which an appendage is articulated into a pan or cavity. Confertim: closely clustered or crowded. Conflect: crowded; clustered; opposed to sparse. Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one outline. Confused: a marking with indefinite outlines: a running together as of lines and spots without definite pattern. Congener: a species belonging to the same genus. Congeneric: applied to a species agreeing in all characters of generic value with others compared with it. Congested: heaped together; crowded: distended. Conglobate: gathered together in a ball or sphere. Conglobate gland: a glandular appendage of male sexual organs in Orthoptera, opening upon one of the external structures. Conglomerate: congregated; massed together. Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point. Conico-acuminate: in the form of a long, pointed cone. Coniferous: a surface which bears cone-like processes.