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NATURAL HISTORY. 
crimfon fiJOts obferved on its elytra, or wing- 
cafes. 
Genus XI. 
COCCUS. 
Charader. 
The trunk is placed in the breaft ; the 
hinder part of the abdomen is briftly. The 
males have two ereft wings ; while the fe- 
males are apterous, or without any. 
COCCUS PHALARIDIS. 
The COCHINEAL FLY. 
The feet and body of this infeft are near- 
ly of a pink colour, and fprinkled with a 
little white powder. The wings and four 
threads of its tail, are of the clearefl; white. 
It is found on a fpecies of grafs called phalaris. 
The female forms, on the ftock of this dog- 
grafs, a white downy neft, in which flie depo- 
fits her eggs. Being brought over with exotic 
or foreign plants, they are fometimes found 
•in hot-houfes. This fpecies of gall-infeft is 
ufed in dying fcarlet. When the dried co- 
chineal 
