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out feet (Fig. 29), which, staying fifteen days in the pulp, digs a verti- 

 cal gallery through till it reaches the stone and diverging thereby. 



FIG. 27. 



As soon as the larva is fully grown it gets near to the out fruit by 

 enlarging the canal made by its mother on depositing the egg, so as to 

 let the grown insect come out. 



FIG 28 - Olive iutaecale dal Daco per deporvi lo nova. 



Twelve days from the time the larva is transformed in nymph grows 

 the fly, and the insect is formed in twenty eight days, counting the 

 time from depositing its egg. 



FIG 29. Larva o nitifa del Daco. 



The Cocciniglia (female Coccus) is another insect damaging the olive 

 tree, which stays Cor several mouths immovably attached on the branches 



