$6$ Defcription of the LScJba, or Lac Infe£L 



the partitions are much thinner : the cells are in general ir- 

 regular fquares, pentagons and hexagons, about an eighth 

 of an inch in diameter, and one quarter deep : they have no 

 communication with each other. All thofe I opened during 

 the time the animals were ifluing, contained in one half, a 

 fmall bag tilled with a thick red jelly-like liquor, replete with 

 what I take to be eggs : thefe bags, or utriculi, adhere to 

 the bottom of the cells, and have each two necks, which pafs 

 through perforations in the external coat of the cells, form- 

 ing the fore-mentioned excrefcences, and ending in fome 

 very fine hairs. The other half of the cells have a diflinct 

 opening, and contain a white fubftance, like fome few fila- 

 ments of cotton rolled together, and numbers of the infects- 

 themfelves ready to make their exit. Several of the fame in- 

 fects I obferved to have drawn up their legs, and to lie fiat : 

 they did not move on being touched, nor did they fliow any 

 figns of life with the greateft irritation. 



December 5. The fame minute hexapedes continue ifluing 

 from their cells in numbers : they are more lively, of a 

 deepened red colour, and fewer of the motionlefs fort. To- 

 day I faw the mouth : it is a flattened point about the middle 

 of the breaft, which the little animal projects on being com- 

 preffed. 



December 6. The male infects I have found to-day : a 

 few of them are conftantly running among the females mod 

 actively : as yet they are fcarce more, I imagine, than one 

 to 5000 females, but twice their fize. The head is obtufe ; 

 eyes black, very large ; antennae clavated, feathered, about 

 ■|- the length of the body : below the middle an articulation, 

 •fuch as thofe n the legs : colour between the eyes a beautiful 

 mining green : neck very (hort : body oval, brown : abdo- 

 men oblong, the length of body and head : legs fix : wings 

 membranaceous, four, longer than the body, fixed to the 

 fides of the thorax, narrow at their infertions, growing 

 broader for - of their length, then rounded ; the anterior 

 pair is twice the fize of the poilerior : a ftrong fibre runs 



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