This lawn, dîpped in v/ater, may 
be ufed equalîy with thc nacarat- 
wool of Portugal to the famé pur- 
pofes as cochineal, one of which is 
to give a colour to liquors. It is 
computed that there are impcrted 
yearly into Europe, in the courfe 
of trade, eight hundred and eighty 
thoufand pounds of cochineals. 
An attempt fliould be made to 
propagate them in our American 
Illands, where the climate feems 
favourable to thofc infeâs. We 
might perhaps make fomething of 
our European cochineal, which 
bears grcat refemblance to the 
American. 
s’employer ainfi que la laine nacarat 
de Portugal au même ufage que 
la cochenille. On s’én fert pour 
colorer les liqueurs. On eftineq 
qu’il- entre en Europe tous les ans 
dans le commerce 880 mille livres 
de cochenilles. On devroit tenter 
d’en élever dans nœ Mes de l’Amé- 
rique, où le climat paroit favorable 
pour ces infedles. Peutetre pour- 
rions nous tirer partie de notre 
cochenille Européenne. Elle rèf- 
fcmblc beaucoup à la cochenille 
d’Amérique, 
GENUS 12. THRIP 3 . Tab. IX. 
CHARACTER GENERIS. 
Roflruni obfcurum & ob parvitatem vix confpicuum. Antennæ fili- 
formes longitudine thoracis. Corpus lineare. Abdomen furfum reflex- 
ile. Aîæ quatuor reétæ, dorfo incumbentes longitudinales, anguftæ» 
fubcruciatæ. Linn. fyfl;, itat. p. 742, 
I2th GENUS. The THRIPS. PI. IX. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS. 
The rollrum is obfcure, or fo fmall, as to be fcarcc perceptible.- Thé 
antennæ are as long as the thorax, and hiiform. The body is flender, 
and of equal thicknefs in its whole length. The abdomen is refiexible, 
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