888 THE ENTOM()r,()(irST's RECORD. 



yellow tint), smooth and shiny surface, with numerous minute, 

 closely-set longitudinal ribs from base to apex, crossed with still finer 

 transverse ribs. The egg, although roughly of typical Noctuid shape, 

 is very depressed and flattened. The dissection of a $ showed the 

 body to be quite full of these minute eggs, with scarcely a trace of any 

 other structure, except the walls of the ovaries in which they were 

 contained, being discernible. The whole of the eggs, those nearest to, 

 as well as those most distant from, the ovipositor, appeared to be of 

 about the same size, and to have reached about the same stage of 

 development, except that those more remote were, perhaps, rather 

 smoother, due to the ribs being very unpronounced, owing probably 

 to the more fluid condition of the eggs. [This note was made 

 August 19th, 1903, from eggs dissected from the body of a ^ captured 

 at light at Chamonix on the evening of the previous day.] 



Tanafira chaerophyllata. — The eggs are bright green when first laid, 

 and, with the exception of a faint paling, appear to maintain this 

 colour for a considerable time. The egg is very remarkable in shape, 

 and diflers from the normally oval Geometrid egg, in so far as, at the 

 time of laying, there is a deep longitudinal depression running up the 

 whole length of one side of the Qgg, and making it exactly like a grain 

 of wheat in shape. One pole (? micropylar) is flattened, its nadir 

 rounded. Under power at disposal, the egg appears to be smooth, but 

 one suspects that, with a stronger power, a surface-sculpturing would 

 be detected. [The eggs, described on August 7th, were laid on July 

 29th, 1908, by a $ taken, in cop., at Hauderes the preceding day, 

 when, between 8 a.m. and 8.80 a.m., large numbers of paired examples 

 were observed resting on the grass in the fields between Evolene and 

 Hauderes.] 



GnopltoH (ilaucinaria. — (1) The eggs are almost perfectly oval in 

 outline ; the length : breadth as about 7 : 5. The upper surface shows 

 a very large oval depression occupying the greater portion of this area 

 of the egg, reaching, however, a less distance towards the micropylar 

 end than to its nadir. The egg is covered with longitudinal rows of 

 minute cells, which give it a very beautiful appearance, the apical area 

 reminding one, as much as anything, of the end of a thimble. When 

 first laid the eggs are, I believe, pale yellow (I unfortunately have no 

 note), but rapidly become of a pale crimson tint to the naked eye, the 

 colour appearing somewhat weaker, bright rose-pink, when examined 

 under a lens. [The eggs, described on August 10th, 1903, were laid 

 by a 5 obtained on August 2nd at Arolla.] (2) A flat egg, almost oval 

 in outline, but with the micropylar end somewhat broader than its nadir ; 

 the length to breadth as about 7:5; very pale yellow in colour when 

 first laid, but already (within twelve hours of being laid) changing to 

 orange. The surface is covered by a number of longitudinal ribs crossed 

 by numerous exceedingly tine transverse ones, which divides into a 

 number of shallow little cells, the bottoms of which are very shiny ; 

 an oval depression forms on the upper flattened surface of the egg ; 

 the micropylar end of the egg is also pitted with shallow cells 

 (resulting in much the appearance of the top of a thimble), but the 

 micropylar structure cannot be made out with the power at disposal. 

 (The fact that the lid of the box did not fit tightly on the rim of the 

 box itself led the ? to push many of her eggs round the rim of the 

 box, and this leads one to suppose that she may push the eggs into 



