122 ORDER II. Coccus. 



Genus XI. Coccus. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 569. 



The roftrum of the Coccus is fituatc in 

 the bread. 



The hinder part of the abdomen is 

 briftly. 



The males have two ereft wings. 



The females are apterous. 



Scha^ffer obferves, that their antenna are fe- 

 taceous. 



! The female Cocci fix themfelves and adhere, 

 almoft immovably, to the roots, and fometimes 

 to die branches of plants, where they are vifited 

 by the winged males ; fome of them having 

 thus fixed themfelves, lofe entirely the form 

 and appearance of infects ; their bociies iwell, 

 their fkin ftretches, and becomes fmooth, the 

 fegments of their abdomen difappear, and they 

 much refemble fome kinds of galls or excrefcen- 

 ces found frequently on the leaves and branches 

 of plants, that in general they are miftaken for 

 fuch *, after which changement, the abdomen 

 ferves only for a kind of covering or fhell, under 

 which the eggs are concealed •, to thefe Geoffroy 



has 



