yie de la province 

 ipagnie de Jesus, pi 



.lured by the French into Alg< 

 neighbourhood of Ningpo by Fi 

 it was named Coccus Pela. Tl 

 ing the cochineal insect > . lac in-ecL of China, the 



destructive coffee bug, and many of the pests of our own greenhouses. 

 It has the following characteristics. The female lias a thick, globular, 

 wingless liudy, composed of 14 rings; small inconspicuous eyes ; short 

 antenna 1 with nine joints ; a short heak, and the abdomen furnished at 

 its extremity with two rdmrt threads. In the malt the antenna 1 are Ion;: 



ite of 



the numerous ova. It incloses also the "beetle'' or "buffalo" so 

 graphically described by Mr. Baber, which would seem to be a parasite 

 developed in tin l.ody oi' the female wax insect, ready to emerge, a fullv 

 formed insect, in the" summer, serving mav be, as Mr. I Tosie ingeniously 



<urmi<e.s as a provision of nature to affonl an exit for the newlv hatched 





Fra.iinHs Chincusi.s, Roxb., judging f 



ns call it la-shn 



