Dr. Roxburgh’s Account , &c. 229 
eighth of an inch in diameter, and a quarter of an inch deep; 
they have no communication with each other. All thofe I 
opened, during the time the animals were bluing from them, 
contained in one fide, and which occupied half the cell, a 
fmall bag, filled with a thick red jelly-like liquor, replete with 
what I take to be eggs. Thefe bags, or utriculi, adhere to the 
bottom of the cells, and have each two necks, which pafs through 
perforations in the external coat of the cells, forming the before- 
mentioned excrefcences, ending in fome very fine hairs. 
The other half of the cells have a diftant opening, and 
contain a white fubftatice, like fome few filaments of cotton 
rolled together, and a number of the little red infedls themfelves 
crawling about, ready to make their exit. Their portion of 
each cell is about a half; and, I think, muft have con- 
tained near one hundred of thefe animals. Other cells, lefa 
forward, contained in this half with one opening, a thick, 
red, dark blood-coloured liquor, with numbers of exceedingly 
minute eggs, many times fmaller than thofe found in the fmall 
bags which occupied the other half of the cells. Several of 
thefe infers I obferved to have drawn up their legs, and to 
lie flat ; they did not move on being touched ; nor did they 
fhew any figns of life upon the greateft irritation *. 
Dec. 5. The fame minute hexapodes continue iffuing from 
their cells in numbers. 
Dec. 6. The male infed, I have found to-day, at leaft what 
I think is fuch. A few of them are conftantly running about, 
and over the little red infers, (which I fhall now call the 
female) moft a&ively : as yet they are fcarce, not more, I 
imagine, than 1 to 5000 females, but they are four or five 
times their fize. 
* It will appear in the fequel, that thefe were on the point of transformation 
into the pupa Rate. 
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