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the plants or stems; the little activity which they had pre-
viously possessed, entirely ceasing. ‘The males discontinue
to increase in size, and if one of them be opened carefully, a
small and elegant chrysalis will be found in the old skin of
the larva; the females, however, continue to increase in size,
until they are many times larger than the other sex, the
margins of the body being glued down to the plant, the
body being by degrees distended by a very great number of
eggs, until nothing more than the upper and under skins of
the. insects remain.” The eggs are deposited in a layer of
white, gummy matter, which prevents them from sticking to
the bark, and are by degrees pushed beneath the body; the
female then dies, and the young ones, when hatched, make
‘their way from beneath this scaly covering.

As a proof of the ravages committed by these insects, it
is said that the orange-trees in the island of Fayal, one of
the Azores, were entirely destroyed by them; this injury
extended also to St. Michael’s; and the inhabitants of this
group of islands, who depended almost solely on the pro-
duce of their orange groves, were reduced to great distress
by the depredations of this apparently insignificant insect. —

The Skins of Animals were used for various purposes by