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whitish mealy-looking coat. When magnified this 
appearance is shown to be formed of little rough patches 
of a white cotton-like or waxy secretion, which are 
largest and thickest towards the fore part of the insect, 
and are mixed with a sprinkling of black hairs. These 
hairs are set much more thickly at the edges, and form 
almost a fringe at the hinder part to which the white 
longitudinally striped egg-bag is appended. 
Whether this sac is easily separable when fresh I do 
not know, but, after soaking some time in spirits of 
wine, I found it could be easily detached, and the insect 
attached was found to be a soft, thick, fleshy, oval mass, 
the place of the thorax or fore body being showed above 
by three slightly raised, convex, transverse ridges, each 
bearing a slight knob or elevation in the middle. The 
fore edge of the insect is thickened and slightly scalloped, 
and with a few ridges running from the edge to the 
Female of Iceryapurchasi ; under side and antenna (much magnified). 
foremost ridge. Beneath it is furnished with three 
pairs of legs, a pair of horns or antennae of nine or ten 
joints (see fig.), and a stout sucker placed between the 
two foremost pairs of legs (all black or pitchy). The 
antennae or horns are of nine or ten joints, of the same 
width throughout, excepting the lowest joint, which is 
somewhat wider than the others; and in the specimen 
examined it was not clear whether the apparently long 
joint immediately succeeding was of two joints or of one, 
slightly marked across in the centre. 
