Identifier: sketchesofnatura00tenn (find matches)
Title: Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. : including a monograph of the elephant and a description of the modes of capturing and training it with engravings from original drawings
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Zoology Elephants
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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^ Until she has nearly reached her full size, she stillpossesses the power of locomotion, and her six legs areeasily distinguishable in the under surface of her cor-pulent body; but at no period of her existence has shewings. It is about the time of her obtaining full sizethat impregnation takes place ^; after which the scalebecomes somewhat more conical, assumes a darker * Figs. 6 and 7. There are many and others with milky juices : other species of the Coccus tribe another subgenus (Ceroplastes ?), in Ceylon, some (Pseudococcus ?) the female of which produces a never appearing as a scale, the protecting waxy material, infests female wrapping herself up in a the Gendurassa Vulgaris, the Furr- white cottony exudation ; many csea Gigantea, the Jak tree, Mango, species nearly allied to the true and other common trees. Coccus infest common plants about ^ Keaumur has described the gardens, such as the Nerium singular manner in which this Oleander, Plumeria Acuminata, occurs. Mem. tom. iv.
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WR^ 10 THE COFFEE BUG.Lccanium Caffeoe. Chap. XII.) THE COFFEE-BUG. 439 colour, and at length is permanently fixed to the surfaceof the plant, by means of a cottony substance interposedbetween it and the vegetable cuticle to which it adheres.The scale, when full grown, exactly resembles in minia-ture the hat of a Cornish miner ^, there being a narrowrim at the base, which gives increased surface of attach-ment. It is about ^ inch in diameter, by about ^Vdeep, and it appears perfectly smooth to the naked eye;but it is in reality studded over with a multitudeof very minute warts, giving it a dotted appearance.Except the margin, which is ciliated, it is entirely des-titute of hairs. The number of eggs contained in oneof the scales is enormous, amounting in a single one to691. The eggs are of an oblong shape, of a pale fleshcolour, and perfectly smooth.^ In some of the scales,the eggs when laid on the field of the microscope re-semble those masses of life sometimes seen in decayedcheese.^

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