THE 
MAILED COCCUS. 
Generic Character. 
Rojfrum fituated beneath the thorax. 
Abdomen (in moll fpecies) briftled. 
Wings (in the males two, upright.) The females 
apterous. 
Specific Character. 
WHITE MAILED COCCUS, with ferruginous 
antenna; and legs. 
It Jeans allied to the Coccus rufei. 
The very rare and curious infeft here reprefented 
■was difeovered by the ingenious Mr. Dickfon, Fel¬ 
low of the Linnaean Society, and Gardener to the 
Britilh Mufeum, well known for his attentive re- 
fearchcs into that difficult branch of botany the 
clafs Cryptogamia. Mr. Dickfon loon after its dil- 
covery prefented me with a fpccimen of the infeed, 
requehing me to examine its characters, and afccr- 
tain, if poffiblc, its genus. I accordingly made a 
microfcopic furvey of the animal, and on conlider- 
ing 
