By Tlu.'. ( .in.nis. 



The Kaix-Tkee. 



What appear like tloweis on the brandies of tlie tree are really Insi'Cts related to the frog-hopj-er, and their constant secretion of surplus 

 fluid sucked from the tree causes a continual stream to drip from the twigs. The drawing shows an East African species. A siinilar Insect 

 was noted in Angola bv Livingstone, wlio estin\ated that one cluster of them would produce three or four pints of fluid in a suigli' night. 



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