Change. 
Mr. kerr’s Hiftory of the IrfeB ] &c. ^75 
owing to the minutenefs of the objed, and want 
of propet glafles. 
This in fed is defdribed in that ftate in winch 
it failles forth from the womb of the parent in 
the months of November and December. They 
traverfe the branches of the trees 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 a& before, blit fhew no other 
marks of life* The limbs, antennae, and fetae 
of the tail are no longer to be feen. Around 
their edges they are environed with' a fpiflid fub- 
pellucid liquid, which feeitis 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 Lacca. 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 fmail cuchanical infed, emarginated at the pb- 
tufe end, full of a beautiful red liquid. I11 Octo- 
ber 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 infers 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. 
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