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h parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

One of the order of Coleoptera.

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

gans, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism. To the doctrine of dysteleology, or the denial of final causes, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessarily be fatal. Word (Dynamic Sociology).

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem an…

See Galiot.

A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.

Same as Hylæosaur.

Pertaining to the ileum and cæcum.

Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocæcal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.

A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon I., or his family; resembling, or having the qualities of, Napoleon I. Lowell.