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particular honour to have propofed it to you, as I {hall 
be proud of every oportunity tq approve myfelf. 
Dear Sir, 
Your moft obedient 
London, Dec. 14, 1762. humble fervant 
Daniel C. Solander. 
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CVII. An Account of the Male and Female 
Cochineal InfeSls , that breed on the Cadbus 
Opuntia, or Indian Fig, in South Caro- 
lina and Georgia : In a Letter from 
John Ellis, Efq\ to Peter Wych, Efq\ 
SIR, 
Read Dec. 23, IN DIN G the natural hiftory of Coo 
1762. JJ-t chineal ftill defective, (notwithftand- 
ing the diligent inquiries that have been made by 
many curious perfons into the nature and ceconomy 
of this valuable infeft) for want of a defeription of ' 
the Male, I took the firft opportunity of endeavouring 
to illuftrate it. 
Hearing then that this infedt bred in great abundance 
on the Cadtus Opuntia of Linnaais’s Species Plantarum, 
p. 468. in South Carolina and Georgia, where it is 
a native and grows in great plenty, as well as on the 
Cadtus Cocci nellifer of the fame author, which, 
grows in Mexico, and has been for thefe many years 
introduced 
