EGGS 



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many of the minuter forms of the class Arachnida, as for example 

 the Acarina, or mites and ticks, present to those who are in search of 

 objects of beauty a wide and most interesting field. In fig. 747 we 

 give a group of eggs, all but the central form being eggs or organisms 

 of this order. It is thus with the eggs of many insects ; they are 

 objects of great beauty, on account of the regularity of their form 

 and the symmetry of the markings on their surface (fig. 748). The 

 most interesting belong for the most part to the order Lepidoptera ; 

 ; uid there are few among these that are not worth examination, 

 some of the commonest (such as those of the cabbage butterfly, 



Fici. 748. Eggs of butterflies and moths. 



which are found covering large patches of the leaves of that plant) 

 being as remarkable as any. Those of the puss-moth (Cerura 

 /////'/'/), the privet hawk-moth (>'/'// ni.<- fi</H^tri). the small tortoise- 

 shell butterfly (Vanessa, trrttcce), the meadow-brown butterfly (Hip- 

 parchla janira), the brimstone- moth (Runt in crntu i//itn\ and the 

 silkworm (Boml>i/.f mart) may be particularly specified; and, from 

 other orders, those of the cockroach (Blatta oriental-is), field-cricket 

 (A<-/"'tif campestris), water-scorpion (Xi'jm ,-/</i/tt/-), bug (('tin ./ 

 cow-dung fly (Scatophaga s/cri'n, //(/). arid blow-fly 



Memoire sin- hs'Objets qui pcuri'iit i'trr rtiiisi'iTt's en Prijxirntiinis iiiiri-i>m-<>/ii<fti,'x 

 (Paris, l.S5(i), which is peculiarly full in the enumeration of the objects of inti-iv-i 

 afforded bv the class of Insects. 



