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HEMIPTERA 855
modate them, and after the females die the scales may furnish protection for
the eggs during winter. The eggs vary in color from white to yellow, red, or
purple. The newly hatched young are scarcely visible to the naked eye. They
are oval with distinctly segmented body, including nine abdominal segments
and two long anal filaments. The antennre are usually six-segmented; one pair
of ocellanre; three pairs of legs with two pairs of digitules at the ends of the tarsi;
one-segmented rostrum; and dorsal anus. They are active crawlers and con d
FIG. 124. ' The black scale, Saissetia ole