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ones, when brushed off, will ascend the plants again, 

 and take possession of their old abodes. (Kollar,) 



Speechley observes of it, that it seems to be exactly 

 similar to the Orange Scale Insect in its manner of 

 breeding. The eggs, which are discharged from the 

 female, are pushed forward between the skin of the 

 belly and the leaf of the plant to which the insect 

 adheres ; in consequence of this, the skin of the 

 belly becomes less distended, which enable the insect 

 to afford a larger covering for the eggs already ex- 

 cluded. When the eggs are all discharged, the skin 

 of the belly retreats close to the back of the parent 

 iasect, which then appears like a mere scale. If the 

 insect in this state be raised with the point of a 

 needle from the leaf, a number of eggs may be per- 

 ceived under it, of a pale red colour, and very trans- 

 parent, not unlike the roe (or eggs) of fishes ; but 

 with this difference, that they are not connected by a 

 membrane, but loosely packed together. The mother 

 not only thus broods over her eggs till they are 

 hatched, but continues to protect her young for a 

 considerable time after, and either dies during the 

 time she is performing this last office for them, or 

 very soon after. 



The males of both the above species are much less 

 than the females, and appear very different from 

 them ; the latter, except just in their infant state, 

 never assuming any other form than that of a scale, 



