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out feet (Fig. 29), which, staying fifteen days in the pnlp, 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. 



FjG. 28. - Olive intaccale dal Daco per deporvi le uova. 



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. 



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no. 29.— Larva e Dinfa del Daco. 



The Gocciniglia (female Coccusj is another insect damaging the olive 

 ^ tree, which stays for several months immovably attached on the branches 



