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does not use his wings, but walks up to the female and remains 
with her. After fecundation the female deposits her 
substance in generating the ova; she then dies and a 
covering for the eggs, which in their turn go through the same 
course of existence ave here views of the larva in its abdo- 
nee. e 
minal and dorsal — and the egg — stg vane 
also a branch of the mulberry and a slide showing the lar 
These creatures attack some species of — but will leave aers 
in immediate juxtaposition in our fernerie 
Various efforts have been made to get rid of this pest from the 
trees without beneficial results, and I hear that the farmers in 
the neighbourhood of Baulkham Hills use soft soap and 
sulphur for the purpose freely applied. - —- trying some 
purp 
Cuvier describes four varieties of these caeiined the third 
family of the Homopterus hemiptera called Gallins ecta. He says 
at pe have only a single joint in the fasta: with a single 
is terminated c two threads. The fareslerd is a aur phone and 
furnished with a cakes cis. The antenne are filiform and often 
eleven-jointed. Thefourvarieties ciemaad by Cuvier, C.admidem, 
C. ca — C. ——- © ghiis 
reatures here depicted have a single joint in the 
tarsi, hk mee have three — at the tip. I eran never been 
able to capture a specimen of the perfect winged m These 
differ materially from the ‘oneal of the coccus which attacks 
the orange, which I have also examined microscopically. 
