VARIOUS INSECTS EATEN AS FOOD. 375 



insect product of Australia formed on the Eucalypti, 

 relished by the natives; trehalose, a peculiar sugar to 

 the amount of nearly 29 per cent, contained in the small 

 cocoons of Larinus maculatus, eaten in Persia ; mopane on 

 Bauhinia leaves, with the edible secretion of an insect 

 Psylla, and some products of gall insects. 



