CHERMESINjE. 



This tribe is limited as to species, but it contains 

 several insects of interest. The simple character of 

 their wings separates them from the foregoing Aphides, 

 and brings them nearer to the Coccidas, to which 

 also the larvse approximate in form, and somewhat 

 also in habit. 



Some kinds are bark-feeders, some are gall-makers, 

 some inhabit tufts of woolly matter spun from their 

 bodies for concealment, and others, like Phylloxera, 

 have aerial and subterranean habits combined in the 

 same individual. 



