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ferve the form of infefls till they have laid their eggs, 
-and pcrifh. (Thefe lie calls cocci,) 
A kind of down or cotton grows out of their belly, 
which ferves as a nefl, in which they depofit their 
e ggs. 
The coccus of the phalaris contrives along the 
(lalks of the dog-grafs little nefts, of a white cot- 
tonny fubftance, in which fhe lays her eggs. 
Mod: of the cochineals found in hot-houfes have 
been brought over with exotic plants* 
The green-houfe bug, found on orange trees, 
is probably a coccus ; it (licks clofe and fucks the 
juice ; it can thrufl out its legs and move. The male 
is a winged infeft. 
Cochineal, which is fo ufeful in dying, and to the 
painters as carmine, is found on the Racket, other- 
wife called -Nopal, Cardaflia, Indian -Fig, and 
Opuntia. 
The drug might be prepared from the Indian Fig, 
or Coccus, purer than what the infett itfelf, which 
feeds upon it, affords. 
We might, perhaps, make fomething of our Eu¬ 
ropean cochineal, which bears great refemblance to 
the American. 
It 
