186 Descriprion oF Gez on MANNA. 
‘¢ The climate is good.—The thermometer 58° at sun-rise, 86° at noon, 
*¢ and 80° at suneset. No hot winds as yet.” 
Tue small branch with flowers received from Mr. Munrer, proves 
to be a climbing species of celastrus. 
A more perfect account of this insect must depend on the opportunity 
of observing it in all its stages—the whole of what we had for inspection 
(about 100) were apterous, and the abdomen of all totally destitute of 
those processes which distinguish most species of Chermes from the preced- 
ing Genus Aphis. 
Tue appearance of the insect, before being handled or disturbed from” 
the leaves and branches they form on, furnishes a character admitting 
of comparison with another species of Chermes—viz. Chermis Alni*— 
which in the larva State is covered with a viscid, downy, filamentous 
substance—so are the insects under inspection in their native haunts; but 
however light and flocculent this may have been when first taken, the 
pressure it has undergone in a transit of several hundreds of. miles, must 
be considered as likely to rob it of that character. 
* Chermes found on the Betula Alnus. 
