hed it. At that time occurred to a specimen of the Desert snail from Egypt, it is scarcely inferior to honey in sweetness, and issues in (about eight or nine years ago) it attracted a good deal of chronicled by Dr. Baird in the ‘“‘ Annals of Natural History.” limpid drops from the body of the… … abdomen of an aphis first on one tosee them crawl about. Icould side and then on the other, and not get them to feed. One died immediately a little drop of the in the following May, having muchcoveted juice issues forth, Which the ant eagerly conveys been in confinement nine months. The other died…
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