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mentioned at what season he procured these, and 

 we have no means of ascertaining whether our species 

 is the same with his*. 



a b c. Eggs of the hawthorn coccus, covered by the body of the 

 deiid mother, d, one of these magnified, e, a section, showing 

 the eggs within. 



We have found the eggs just mentioned most 

 abundant on the hawthorn in the hedges around 

 London ; but as the size, the colours, and the forms 

 of the crust are very different, there can be no doubt 

 of there being' different species even on the same 

 tree. "In July, 1812," says Kirby, "I saw a cur- 

 rant-bush miserably ravaged by a species of coccus 

 very much resembling the coccus of the vine. The 

 eggs were of a beautiful pink, and enveloped in a 

 large mass of cotton-like web, which could be drawn 

 out to a considerable length t." From the manner in 

 which this justly popular author speaks, it would ap- 

 pear he had not elsewhere met with this coccus ; but 

 ♦ I. R. t Intr. i. VJ7. 



