cammed— ;! -ub, about a 



undred lii - l,ig flS ii m +,„, . i j rrible para ite indeed. It is 



died the c ax-dog on account of its supposed voracitv, and sometime* 

 10 '' iru.i buffalo '' from its eompara'ively gigantic size. If lies in a 



1 Li. is) i ! ill', . 11- oni ) ~s< (1 !») i - pn y. Fiie - c ond » ill I opened 

 iso contained a buffalo ; and so did the third, and. so did the fourth, 

 ad so did every one I examined which contained anything at all. 



had counted somewhere into the twenties, when in a gall of not 

 lore than average size came suddenly upon no less than six of these 



lor such conditions s, em- scarcely worth having, if, that 



us time I had collected a whole herd of I >u Haloes, and, on comparing 



i empty withered husks ; and ii 

 exceeding surprise and excitement, a jet black 

 sprang actively from the hu-k. lifted its elytra, unpacked i 

 r solemnly down the breeze before I could secure it. 

 Very possibly, therefore, the natives are right in supposing the t 

 to 1).' an interloper ; and yet 1 was for a long time persuaded tha 

 waxy grub is the mother of the brood, and e\en now 1 am reluctant k 

 abandon the belief. Hut according to all analogy the Coccus-mothej 

 ought to die some time before the young are hatched, and dry up into ; 

 mummy attached to the inside of the gall, which is a kind of carapace 



?d, but the quantity they consume is iinper- 

 main to all appearance uninjured. In about 

 le thin upper twigs, where, according to the 



excrete wax, and the females to form the 

 ix or apart from it. The deposit of wax 



hundred days from the date when the galls 

 and the twigs are then almost entirely coated 

 I an inch or less in thickness. The whole 

 niddle of May to the end of August. While 

 osit is a kind of dense greasy fluff, and looks 



i bag through which it is 



