444 
CHERMRS. 
Roth in their larva and chryfalid (late, many of the 
chermes eject from the anus a white faccharine fubflance 
refembling manna : within the hollow balls formed by 
the box leaves, there are frmll foft grains of this fub- 
ftattce depofited ; and in that date it is frequently feesi 
iffuing from the anus of the infect that dwells there f. 
I Barbbt’s Gen. tnfcft. p. 15s. 
