270 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
Remarks on the Coccus of the Cape Mulberry. 
By F. Mitrorp, M.D., M.R.CS., &e. 
[Read before the Microscopical Section, 13 August, 1877.] 
A FEW years ago, in the neighbourhood of Parramatta, I 
planted a considerable number of mulberry cuttings, three- 
fourths of which belonged to the Cape variety ; the rest were Morus 
ance, chocolate-colour, and varied from a line to + inch 1 
diameter. These dome-shaped bodies occurred in clusters of 
about nine or ten each on the affected branch. On removing a 
specimen from its adhesivesurface, I found it contained particles 
a RO dust, and that the parts of the tree to 
these p 
and accordingly I was desirous of ascertaining their history, in 
order to procure some means for their destruction, as I could not 
but connect their sickliness with the presence of these ppncancste 
to the gen e neces’ visible on the trees are the 
ale cocci. These dying after impregnation, their eggs and 
recently hatched larve are found in their remains. e eggs at 
proboscis, immediately takes:upa position on the tree and inserts 
the tube into the bark, through which she extracts the nutrient 
ins stationa 
juices ; here she remains stationary. The male when at liberty 
