The wax produced near iWnou I i 1 1 < I - it- \va\ to market to the north- 

 ward, and ft < ■ - > reaches Shanghai by the Grand 

 Canal and other waterways. N"one of it comes 10 Xganking or Wuhu 

 which t'.-u-t no doubt accounts for the profound ignorance existing in 

 Wuhu on the subject. 



The quantity of the wax produced near Pochou is said to be quite 

 equal to that of S>u-chuau ; there appear- at any rate to be no such 

 ivnce as to make it noticeable either one way or the other. 

 I cannot learn when the industry was first intredueid into Pochou, or 

 that at any time insects were transferred from Ssii-chuan to Anhui. I 

 am much inclined to think that it is indigenous, and its spontaneous 

 appearance in the garden of the Jesuit Mission ai NTganking tends to 



S-u-ehuaii, or rather, as in the case of the wax. no difference is com- 

 monly known to exist. With such minute insects even specific differ- 

 ences would be invisible to unscientific eyes, and to the Chinese, so 

 long as there was no startlin<r divergence in the colour or quality of 

 the habitat or size of the insect , it would be the same ; nio-t prol.ablv 

 differed essentially in all those 



it would be 



so 



reckoned eve 









In Anhui, 



as in Ssu- 



insect from i 





ree to another 



obtain any expla 



nation of the 



following, w 



hich 



I suggested 



the case, but gradually it was found 

 the scale and with the speed required 

 sitated the partial or total destruei 

 spontaneously produced. It therefo 



transferred, and the subsequent operat 



.as it is called in Father RathomV u 



