Note 1063 — ORDER XI. ANOPLEURA.
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Bernal Diaz’ Conquest of Mexico, i. 394, note 54. This story, no doubt, is founded on something like truth, and most probably these bags were filled with the Coccus cacti, the Cochineal insect, then unknown to the Spaniards, who might have easily mistaken them in a dried state for Lice.