152 



[July, 



were counted in it. Thereafter each batch was noted the morning 

 after it was laid, on the 3rd (he 1st batch contained 233 eggs, 



4th „ -Ind „ „ 113 „ 



5th „ 3rd ., „ 88 ., 



6th „ 4th „ „ 77 „ 



7th „ 5th .,, „ 58 „ 



8th no eggs laid. 



9th the 6th batch contained 52 „ 

 (10th no eggs laid, moth fed). 



11th the 7th batch contained 26 „ 



13 „ 



23 „ 



16 „ 



9 „ 



6 „ 



7 „ 

 3 „ 



724 



The last were laid singly, and were small and misshapen, the 

 moth laid no more eggs, and died a day or two later. 



The total eggs laid were thus 724, and my impression was that 

 the moth was not larger than half the bulk of some of the larger 

 specimens, which would certainly lay over 1000, possibly 1500, eggs. 



Eggs. 



The eggs are oval, 1"06 mm. long by 0*75 wide, and are rather 

 thin and scale-like. They are laid in patches, as with many Tortrices, 

 in an imbricated arrangement. The eggs have a network of surface 

 sculpturing, the cells of which are about 003 in diameter, and tend 

 to be arranged in rows parallel to the egg margin. 



The overlapping of the eggs in a group is such that each egg 

 overlaps its neighbour by about i of its width, and the one in front 

 of it by nearly | of the length, but the lines are not directly acute, 

 but rather oblique ; the arrangement is not identical over the whole 

 of a patch, and the marginal eggs being somewhat radiating, there is 

 more open order towards the edges. 



Plates Y and VI. 



Oct. 28th.— ?, died. 



Oct. 30th. — A few larvae hatched last night from the two first 

 batches of eggs, and a large number about 11 a.m. to-day, this after- 

 noon they are again quite quiescent. The 233 batch has afforded 

 about 50 larvse, the 113 one about 96. This batch was probably 



