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With its very small Cicadas, 

 Froghopiiers, or Cicadixa. 



Now we turn to lumpish insects, 

 Fixed like scales upon the branches 

 Of choice plants in hot stovehouses. 

 Often, too, upon our myrtles, 

 Very often on the apples, 

 And sometimes upon the hawthorn ; 

 Those are always lady insects 

 That thus stick upon the branches, 

 Scalelike insects, or Coccina. 

 Gladly I'd describe antennae. 

 Wings and feet, if I could find them, 

 But from me these parts are hidden. 

 Gentlemen are rarely met with. 

 It is said they are not sealelike, 

 But have wings and long antennae. 



Lastly, come the noisome Plantlice ; 

 Smotherflies the farmers call them. 

 Smothering all the growth of summer, 

 All the tender shoots of roses. 

 Crowding till the shoots are hidden, 

 Leaves and buds concealed by numbers. 

 Anchored by their beaks sapsucking, 

 Winged and wingless all together : 

 Their antennae long and waving. 

 Gradual taper to the summit ; 



