MEMOIRS 
O F T H E 
ROYAL SOCIETY; 
Being a New Abridgment of^he 
Philosophical Transactions* 
Of the Gochineel-Fly. Philofophical Tranfaaions N° ip^ 
p. 502. 
HE infe6t, of which the coehineel is formed, is 
affirmed to be the very fame, with what we call 
the lady-bird, or cow-lady 5 it appears at firft 
like a fmall blifler, or little knob upon the leaves 
of the flirub, on which they breed, which after- 
ward.s, by the heat of the fun, becomes a live 
infe£^, or fmall grub 5 thefe grubs, in procefs of 
time, become flies, and when come to maturity ( which muft be 
found out by experience, in colleding them at leveral feafons ) 
they kill them, by making a great fmother of iome combuftible 
matter, to the windward of the fhrubs, on which the iniefis are 
feeding (having firft fpread fome cloths under the plants} where- 
by all the infers being fmothered, and killed, by ihaking the 
plants, they will fall down upon the cloths, and thus they are 
gathered m great quantities with little trouble j then they fpread 
them on the fame cloths in fome bare fandy place, or (lone- 
pavement, and expofe them ro the heat of the tun, till they arc 
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