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length of egg, the meshes themselves broad and rounded, the depressions 

 shallow so that there are no sharp points or edges about it. [Laid 

 April 12th, 1898, by $ taken at Cannes ; four eggs on lid of box, 

 two of which are laid on long side another partly tilted on one end. J 



Spilosonia mendira. — -TSmm. in diameter, height about -Tmm., 

 about two-thirds of a sphere ; laid in batches, and just touching each 

 other. Pale straw-colour, very shiny ; very slenderly reticulated 

 with a rather large irregular polygonal (chiefly pentagonal) reticulation. 

 The apex around the micropyle for some distance covered with a much 

 finer reticulation than the rest of the surface, but none of the details 

 at all distinct in the newly-laid egg. [Eggs described May 12th, 

 1899, laid May 11th, and sent by Mr. H. J. Turner.] 



Adscita statices. — Eggs laid very regularly in small batches on 

 inside of box. The eggs side by side and just touching each other, 

 and in no wise overlapping. The eggs are laid on their long sides, 

 bright yellow in colour, roughly oval in outline, but flattened and 

 depressed at the top. The upper surface considerably depressed, the 

 depression is roughly oval in shape. The egg is somewhat squared at 

 one end, but becomes broader at the opposite end before rounding off 

 at that end, and shows distinctly the longitudinal striations, which, 

 though fine, are plainly visible over almost the whole surface of the egg. 

 The micropylar end and its nadir apparently smooth. The micropyle 

 not distinguishable Avith a two-thirds lens used as a hand-glass. 

 Measurements about -^oin. in length, ^^oin. in breadth, -gQin. in height. 

 [Described April 24th, 1898, from eggs laid by a 5 taken at Pegomas.] 



—J. W. TUTT. 



Cleonenc peletieraria — [Laid at Puerto de Pajares. July 14th, 

 1904.] Nearly white, egg-shaped, long axis about -gOmm. to •92mm., 

 transverse diameter 0-6mm., there is not much difference in the two 

 transverse diameters, as very little flattening laterally is present. The 

 sculpture is a network of very slightly raised lines in a hexagonal 

 pattern, the lines of hexagons running nearly longitudinally. The 

 individual hexagons have a diameter of about 0-0125mm., so that there 

 are about 75 in the length of the egg. The pattern is so little raised 

 that one would call it a smooth shining egg. — T. A. Chapman, Betula, 

 Reigate. 



Krebia eiiihla. — The egg forms an almost regular oval in outline, 

 rather fuller at the base than at the apex. It is as nearly as possible 

 1-lram. long and •85mm. wide. By the time the egg reached me (July 

 4th) it was of a whitish hue thickly mottled over with irregular brown 

 dots. The shell is shiny, and there are 85 rather wavy irregular 

 longitudinal ribs, which become much fewer in number towards the 

 apex owing to adjacent ribs uniting together. About 15 ribs pass 

 over into the micropylar basin, a very shallow depression occupying the 

 greater part of apical area of the egg, and these merge into an irregular 

 reticulation of an opaque whiteness at the base. At the central point 

 of the depression are two dark brown points, the micropyle proper. 

 There are no real transverse ribs, although traces of such appear 

 somewhat irregularly at the sides of the longitudinal ribs, and the basal 

 part of the egg has a moderate development of such ribs. [Described 

 July 4th under a two-thirds lens from an egg sent by Dr. Chapman on 

 June 80th, 1898, from Saeterstoen.] — J. W^ Tutt. 



Xola chlmniididaliii. — [Laid April 8th, 1898, by 2 captured at 



