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On that side which is outermost as the e^g is attached to its support, 

 there is a slight iudentatiou opposite the point of attachment, and on 

 each side of that a longitudinal furrow for about half the length of 

 the egg. But the most remarkable feature is a pair of processes at 

 the cephalic end (Fig. lb), each shaped, in a side view, very much like 

 a " note of inten-ogation." These must, I think, be micropyles, though 

 why they should be of such a bizarre form it is impossible to say. 

 Wlien the egg hatches, an operculum is separated off from this end, 

 leaving a perfectly even edge, and showing an apertvire which, by 

 reason of the furrows above-mentioned, has a somewhat pear-shaped 

 outline. The suture of the operculum passes between the two terminal 

 processes, so that one of them is on the operculum itself, looking like 

 a handle to a lid, and the other is on the main shell. The surface of 

 the operculum is roughened by a number of flat rounded papilla), 

 which are placed more or less regularly in rows following the outline, 

 and arranged concentrically round the micropyle. As this latter is 

 excentric in position, the papillae become smaller and more closely 

 packed, and in fact almost obliterated in its immediate neighboiirhood. 

 The operculum separates from the body of the egg completely, and 

 after the issue of the larva, a delicate iridescent conical pellicle is 

 left protruding from the shell. Very similar phenomena have been 

 described by Mr. Annandale in connection with an exotic Coreid bug, 

 Dalader acuticosta, A. & S. (see Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, p. 56). 



The newly-hatched larva is probably at least 1 mm. long, but as in 

 my specimens the soft abdomen was qt;ite shrivelled up when I found 

 them, it is impossible to say exactly. As usual in the Coreidiv. the 

 antennae are inordinately long and stout. The whole insect is covered 

 with long, stout, black setae, intermingled with fine white hairs, both 

 sets of which are truncately clavate at the apex. The head is large, 

 pale yellowish, with bright red eyes ; the thorax is more or less red, 

 and the legs are spotted with black. The rostrum is about as long as 

 the body and has a stout black tip. 



Mr. H. A. Saunders has most kindly sent me also two eggs of 

 Chorosoma schillhuji, Sclium. (Fig. II), which he obtained from a ? 

 taken at Studland in September. These are much like those of 

 Myrmn^, differing chiefly in their slightly stouter form and in the 

 shape of the terminal appendages. 



The egg has been already described )jy Capt. Xamlieu in Ann. 

 Soc. Linn. Lyon, 1904, as follows: — 



" (Euf. Ions 1 mm. cliam 0.3 mm. Tres allonge, subfusiforme, gris terne. 



