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medusa, 5,000 ft. -G, 000 ft., frequent, and var. hippomedusa, Stclzing, 

 .5,000 ft.; E. manto, Innsbruck, St. Anton, 5,500 ft.-7,000 ft. ; E. 

 glacialis, Innsbruck, G,000 ft. ; E. lappona, 5,500 ft., frequent; E. 

 pronop, 5,500ft., frequent; E. tyndams, 4,500ft., frequent; E. gorge 

 var. triopcK, Innsbruck, 5,500 ft. ; E. goante, Innsbruck; E. aeihiojjs, 

 Innsbruck, 4,500 ft,; E. ligea, Innsbruck, 3,500 ft.; E. eunpde, 

 4,000 ft.-G,000 ft., frequent, and ab. ocellaris, Heiligenblut, 5,000 ft., 

 common; McJauavgla galatea. 



:]aOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Descriptiiixs of Lepidoptkuots K(; ;s. — ]\p\in(la littiiloifa. — The 

 egg is rather more than half a sphere, slightly depressed at apex, and 

 flattened at base. The egg is pale orange-yellow in colour, with 

 irregular red-brown patches strongly developed about the equator and 

 the micropyle of the egg. (By September 2Gth, the colour had become 

 pearly white, irregularly mottled, with large purplish blotches, still, 

 however, most prominent in the equatorial and micropylar regions). 

 There are 26-80 longitudinal ribs running from base to apex ; many of 

 these unite in pairs just above the shoulder of the egg, and others 

 again just before reaching the boundary of the micropylar area. The 

 ribs are prominent, sharp-edged, very shiny, and distinctly marked 

 where the transverse ribbing crosses them. The tine white transverse 

 ribs, some twenty in number, run round the egg parallel to the base, 

 and divide the depressions between the longitudinal ribs into roughly 

 quadrangular spaces, with a rude ladder-like appearance. The longi- 

 tudinal ribs are pressed very closely together toward the apex, forming 

 a puckered rim around the edge of the micropylar area, and then pass 

 over into the micropylar depression, on the sides of which they are 

 gradually lost. The micropylar area itself forms a very minute 

 shallow basin, at the base of which is a tiny raised button, containing, 

 at its apex, another minute depression. The egg is not laid (piite 

 upright, being tilted a little towards one side. Mr. Clarke states that 

 the ova were laid on September 11th, 1897, that they were at first pale 

 yellow, then orange, then mottled. [The eggs were received on 

 September 22nd, from ^Ir. Clarke, and described under a two -thirds 

 lens on September 28rd.] 



Pamphild si/huiuus. — Three eggs laid side by side on a grass leaf. 

 Pearly white in colour ; in shape, rather less than two-thirds of a 

 sphere, a faint yellowish shade occupying the apical area. The egg is 

 much flattened at its point of attachment, and less so at the apex. 

 The shell is iridescent and minutely pitted, but without the pits as- 

 siuning any distinct form of reticulation. A yellowish area, which 

 shows no iridescence, occupies the apex of the egg, and thei-e is a 

 minute micropylar depression centrally in this area, in Avhich the cells 

 are arranged circularly about a minute central depressed point (the 

 micropyle proper). [Fjggs received -July 17th, from the Rev. (1. II. 

 Raynor, described under a two-thirds lens on July 10th.] 



Pararge maera. — Laid on end on the sides of a box. The ogg is 

 oval in outline, being of a somewhat stumpy cylindrical shape, with 

 rounded ends. To the naked eye the egg is of a pale green colour, but 

 under the lens the green appearance is lost. A little le.ss than the 

 upper half appears to be almost transparent, and separated distinctly 



