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with a coating of mud, in which it wallows, and then with 

 this armour can defy the serpent. Topsell tells the tale bet- 

 ter. The Ichneumon burrows in the sand, and 'when the 

 aspe espyeth her threatening rage, presently turning about 



SAN Jos SCALE 



a, Adult female scale; b, male scale; c, young scales; d, larva just 

 hatched; d', same, much enlarged; e, scale removed, showing body of 

 female beneath; f, body of female insect, more enlarged; g, adult male 

 of the San Jos6 scale. From Quaintance, ' ' The San Jose Scale and its 

 Control," Farmers' Bulletin, No. 650. 



Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



her taile, provoketh the ichneumon to combate, and with an 

 open mouth and lofty head doth enter the list, to her owne 

 perdition. For the ichneumon being nothing afraid of this 

 great bravado, receiveth the encounter, and taking the head 

 of the aspe in his mouth biteth that off to prevent the cast- 



