Cryptonyx (kriptoniks)

[NL. (C. J. Temminck, 1815, as Cryptonix ), Crypt open tamer a (kriptō-pen-tam'e-rä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of crypt open tamer us: see cryp to pentamerous.] An artificial section of coleopterous insects, now abandoned, including species in which all the tarsi have five joints, of which the fourth is very minute and concealed under the third. West wood substituted for this the name Pseudo tetramer a. 1381 are composed of cells, either isolated, as in Pro to coccus, embedded in mucus, as in Clathrocystis, or arranged in filaments, as in Nostoe. The only mode of reproduction that has yet been observed is by means of non-sexual spores and hormogonia. The color is bluish-green, or of a peculiar coloring matter, phycocyan, which obscures sometimes brown, purple, or pink, caused by the presence the chlorophyl.co Also called Cyanophycea, Phycochro maceæ, and Phycochromophyceæ. cryptopia (krip-to'pi-ä), n. [NL., πτός, hidden, + όπιον, opium.] Crypto pine. crypto pine (krip'to-pin), n. [As cryptopia + -ine2.] A colorle and odorle alkaloid of opium (C21H23NOg), crystallizing in minute prisms and having strongly alkaline properties. Cryptoplax (kripto-plaks), n. [NL., leading genera of Chitonida. Crypto pod a (krip-top'ō-da), n. pl. [ for the storage of provisions, etc. Cryptoprocta (krip-to-prok'tä), n. [NL., crypto pentamerous (kripto-pen-tam'e-rus), parts. The typical and only genus of the fam- a. [NL. crypt open tamer us , κρυπτός , hid- den, + πενταμερής, in five parts, πέντε , = E. five , + μέρος, part.] In entom ., having all the tarsi five-jointed, but one of the joints minute or concealed; sub pentamerous; pseudo tet ram- erous; specifically, pertaining to the Crypt open- tamer a .