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mentioned at what season he procured these, and we 

 have no means of ascertaining whether our species is 

 the same with his.* 



a 6 c, Eggs of the hawthorn coccus, covered by the body of the 

 dead mother, d, one of these magnified, e, a section, showing 

 the eggs within. 



We have found the eggs just mentioned most 

 abundant on the hawthorn in the hedges around 

 London; but as the size, the colours, and the forms 

 of the crust are very different, there can be no doubt 

 of there being different species even on the same 

 tree. ' In July, 1812,' says Rirby, <I saw a cur- 

 rant-bush miserably ravaged by a species of coccus 

 very .much resembling the coccus of the vine. The 

 eggs were of a beautiful pink, and enveloped in a 

 large mass of cotton-like web, which could be drawn 

 out to a considerable length. '| From the manner in 

 which this justly popular author speaks, it would ap- 

 pear he had not elsewhere met with this coccus; but 



* J.R. 



t Intr. i, 197. 



