Canthus: the chitinous process more or less completely dividing the eyes of some insects into an upper and lower half.
Canus: 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 mass.
Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of certain flies.