i2o ORDER II. Chermes. 



Genus X. Chermes. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. page 377. 



The roftrum of the Chermes is placed 

 in the breaft. 



The antennas are longer than the thorax. 



The wings are declined along the fides 

 of the abdomen. 



The thorax is gibbous. 



The feet are made for leaping, 



Geoffroy has named this genus PJylla, and 

 obferves that its abdomen ends in a point, that 

 it has three (lemmata, that the roftrum is fituate 

 between the firfi: and fecond pair of legs, and 

 that the tarfi are , compofed of two articu- 

 lations. 



Schseffer, who with Scopoli has preferved the 

 Linnsean name to this genus, fays, that the an- 

 tennas are fetaceous, and longer than the thorax. 

 The larvae of the Chermes have fix feet, re- 

 ferable the compleat infeft, and are generally 

 covered with a hairy or woolly fubftance. The 



winged 



