General Meeting, Feb. 1st, 1854. xcix. 

 Fig: 2. 



be seen moving about and in all sizes, from an almost invisible 

 object to a size about the one-sixteenth part of an inch in 

 length, this wool-like substance marked b. jig. 2. seems to be 

 a vegetable mould, and is one of those wonderful provisions 

 of nature serving as a means of protecting the insect from 

 the various enemies to which it is exposed. 



On opening an impregnated female and examining the 

 inside of its body, ova in large quantities are to be seen as at 

 a. jig. 2. The form of the male c. jig. 2 appears to differ 

 considerably from the female d. and seems to be deficient 

 in wings. 



I found a number of small Black Ants on the tree on which 

 I procured the Aphis, but soon ascertained that they fed upon 

 a nectar produced by the Aphides. I have no doubt that 

 if this insect proves a serious obstacle to the Cotton Planter^ 

 the large Red Ant would again prove a useful extermin- 

 ator. 



Lac 



In the proceedings of the last Evening Meeting of the 

 Society, a sample of Lac from the Badulla District, contri- 

 buted by Mr. Ondaatje, was noticed; from that sample I have 

 succeeded in obtaining its two valuable products by a simple 



