Mr. Kerr’s Hiftory of the InfeSt ^ &c. 375' 
owing to the minutenefs of the object, and want 
of proper giaffes. 
This infed is defcribed in that date in which 
it dallies forth from the womb of the parent in 
the months of November and December. They 
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traverfe the branches of the tfees upon which 
they were produced for fome time, and then fix 
themfelves upon the fucculent extremities of the 
young branches. By the middle of January 
they are all fixed in their proper fitUations, they 
appear as plump as before, but (hew no other 
marks of life. The limbs, antennae, and fetae 
of the tail ate no longer to be feeii. Around 
their edges they are environed with a fpiffid fub* 
pellucid liquid, which feems to glue them to the 
branch : it is the gradual accumulation of this 
liquid, which forms a compleat cell for each in* 
fed, and is what is called Gum Dacca. About 
the middle of March the cells are completely 
formed, and the infed is in appearance an oval, 
fmooth, red bag, without life, about the fize of 
a fmall cuchanieal infed, emarginated at the oh* 
tufe end, full of a beautiful red liquid. InOdo* 
her and November we find about twenty or thirty 
oval eggs, or rather young grubs, within the 
red fluid of the mother. When this fluid is all 
expended, the young infeds pierce a hole through 
the back of their mother, and walk off one by 
one, leaving their exuviae behind, which is that 
white membraneous fubftance found in the empty 
cells of the Stick Lac. 
D d d 2 Place. 
