36 [Pebniary, 



Hysterosia Icomonana, Kearfott p. 121 = fermentata, n.. s^. 



Tortrix lomona^ia, „ „ 62 = veneratrix, n. sp. 



Phalonia nomonana, „ „ 84 == voluntaria,n. sTp. 



Proteopteryxmomonana, „ „ 125 ;= sani/ica, n. sp. 



Phalonia romonana, „ „ 83 =^ q^ciosa, n. sp. 



Eucosma tomonana, „ „ 78 = Zimigrena, n. sp. 



,, zomonana, ,, „ 80 = explosa, n. s]). 



I apprehend the three following names of Mr. A. Busek are 



equally bad :— 



Li2}optycha hana, Biisck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 1906, p. 182 = planiloqua, n. sp, 

 „ banana, „ „ „ „ „ „ p. 182 ^ sordescens, n. sp. 



Phalonia rana, „ Joiirn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 22 = ftmesta, n. s-p 



Thornhanger, Marlborough : 

 December 16th, 1911. 



ON THE EGGS OF TWO BRITISH SPECIES OF COBEID.E. 

 BY E. A. BUTLER, B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S. 



On September 19th, 1910, I swept a ? Myrmus miriformis Fall., 

 amongst Calluna, at Gom shall, Surrey. Hoping to obtain eggs, I 

 brought it home and enclosed it in a tube with a twig of Galhma 

 blossom. During the next fortnight, about a dozen eggs were laid on 

 the plant ; they were placed either singly, or two side by side, some on 

 the leaves and some on the flowers. They were not in any way in- 

 serted into the tissues of the plant, Init merely attached by a gummy 

 secretion at a small area on the middle of the long axis. They re- 

 mained in this condition throughout the winter, and it was not till 

 the end of the following May that they hatched. Unfortimately, 

 just at that time, I was unable to examine them daily, and in the 

 interval between inspections they hatched out, and the young larvae, 

 finding no food, died. Since then, Mr. Hugh A. Saunders has been 

 kind enough to send me some more eggs, which were laid in July last, 

 and which I hoped might hatch in the autumn, for it seemed to me 

 that an oviposition so late in comparison with my previous experience 

 might indicate a second brood. However, as they did not hatch, I 

 mxxst wait in expectation of what the spring may produce. 



The egg (Fig. la) is a most curious and interesting object. It is 

 about 1.2 mm. long, and 0.3 mm. wide, almost white when first laid, 

 but becoming ultimately of a shining brown colour, and either oval or 

 subfusiform in outline, according to the aspect in which it is viewed. 



