﻿A Letter from Doctor Anderso?i to Sir fViUlm^, Jones* 



DEAR SIR, 



THE male Lac insect having hitherto escaped the 

 observation of naturalists, I send the enclosed descrip- 

 tion, made by Mr. William Roxburgh, surgeon on 

 this establishment, and botanist to the Honourable 

 Company, in hopes you will give it a place in the 

 publication of your Society, as Mr. Roxburgh's dis- 

 covery will bring Lac a genus into the class He- 

 iniptera of Linnceus. 



I am, with esteem, 

 Dear Sir, 

 Your very obedient servant, 



JAMES ANDERSON* 

 Port St. George, January 2, 1790. 



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