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Corn Sawfly – Coronis

Corn Sawfly

a hymenopterous insect, family Tenthredinidæ. The eggs are deposited on the stalks of wheat and rye, to which they are very destructive.

Cornstone

an arenaceous or siliceous limestone, often mottled and not infrequently concretionary. It usually occurs in those systems which are largely composed of reddish sandstones. those system

Cornwall

a port of Ontario, Canada; at the mouth of the Cornwall canal, and on the St. Lawrence river, 67 miles S. W. of Montreal. Among numerous other factories it contains the principal woolen mill of the Dominion.

The Cornwall canal gives the town exceptional water facilities. There are Episcopal, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. Pop. about 7,000.

Cornwall

BARRY. See PROCTER.

Corebus

a native of Elis, who was the conqueror at the Olympic games in 776 B. c., from which period the Olympiads are reckoned.

Corollary

a proposition the truth of which appears so clearly from the proof of another proposition as not to require separate demonstration.

Coromandel Coast

the E. coast of the Indian peninsula, Madras presidency, or that portion of it between Palk's strait and the Pennar river. It is open, sandy, and has no secure harbors, and the surf renders landing difficult.

Coronach

a name formerly used for the funeral dirge among the Irish and Scottish highlanders. The dirge, disused in Scotland, is in Ireland commonly known as the keen.

Coronea

a small town of Bœotia, S. W. of Lake Copais, where in 447 B. C. the Bœotians defeated the Athenians, and in 394 Agesilaus defeated the allied Greeks.

Coronella

a genus of ophidians, the typical one of the family Coronellidæ. C. austriaca is common in Europe.

Coronellide

a family of ophidians, suborder Colubrina. They are broad snakes, flat beneath, with the shields of the head regular.

Coronis

the daughter of King Phoroneus, whom Neptune loved, and who was changed into a crow by Minerva.