186 THE entomologist's record. 



Food PLANTS of Boarmia abietaria. — I am rearing some larvae of 

 Boariiiia abietaria, beaten from whitethorn and blackthorn in the New 

 Forest. Are these foodplants generally known in the wild state ? 1 

 see no mention of them in Barrett's Lepidoptera of the British fdaiuh. 

 — Ibid. 



Eggs of Lepidoptera. — Polijommatns baton. — The egg fairly large 

 for size of butterfly, of a bright green colour and somewhat shiny 

 when laid, in shape a very flattened depressed spheroid, the height not 

 more than half the diameter. The surface (under a hand-lens) appears 

 to be covered with numberless little points, but, no doubt, under a 

 higher power, would show considerable detail. The micropylar point 

 is small, dark green and hence very conspicuous. [Described with a 

 hand-lens April 28th, 1905, dissected from a $ taken at Hyeres.] 



Lihi/thea celtu. — A tall upright egg, oval in outline. Height : 

 diameter : : 5 : 3, slightly flattened at the apical area, where the longi- 

 tudinal ribs form a prominent projecting rim on the edge before falling 

 over into the depression ; colour of a pale pearl-white with the faintest 

 yellowish tinge, surface shiny. The longitudinal ribs very numerous, 

 fine, but well marked (apparently about 32-86.) The egg is also finely 

 and closely ribbed transversely. (I could make out no other structure 

 Avith power at disposal.) L^^gg' dissected from female at Draguignan, 

 May 5th, 1905] . ' 



Acidalia virijidaria (/). — Very small, tendingtocylindrieal inoutline ; 

 length scarcely more than breadth ; one end (micropylar) flatter and 

 wider than its nadir. Laid as a flat Qgg, upper surface scarcely 

 depressed, the egg being full and swollen. The surface minutely and 

 regularly pitted longitudinally, giving the surface the appearance of 

 having a texture of woven silk ; colour, pearly-whitish, rapidly changing 

 to buft' with irregular streaks of crimson as the embryo matures 

 (giving the eggs the appearance of being red to the naked eye). [ ? 

 of what appears to be this species taken at La Garde near Toulon. 

 Eggs laid May 1st, 1905 ; described May 5th, 1905, with a hand-lens. 

 Hatched May 13th-14th.; — J. W. Tutt. 



The egg and newly- hatched larva of Epinephele ida. — Ovuji 

 [Examined two, laid July 30th, 1904, same day.] : Colour, pale yellow, 

 but deepening in a short time. Although in the larval, pupal, 

 and imaginal states this species is apparently nearly allied to 

 Eijinepheh' pasiphae, yet, in the egg, it ditiers greatly. Tlie eggs are 

 laid on exposed roots, dead leaves, or bits of bark on the ground 

 near the grass tuft, and, unlike the eggs of E. pasiphae, they are 

 fixed to the object, and do not roll about loosely. Height, 

 •6mm., greatest breadth (at base), 'SSmm. The egg is broadest 

 at base and tapers to the edge of the flat area on top. It is, in fact, a 

 truncated cone, the top being sliced ofl' very abruptly. One examined 

 had 12, another 13, rather high vertical ridges running up from the 

 base, and continued over the edge of the top through a eery shallow 

 circular depression or " moat," and ending at the outer edge of a central 

 rosette of well-defined thin-walled cells, the whole slightly raised. The 

 "moat" around the rosette is covered with ven/ shallow cells, and the 

 sides of the egg are transversely ribbed. In three days, or even rather 

 less, the egg becomes dull yellow-brown in appearance to the naked eye. 

 Under microscope it is seen to be mottled with brown, the ground 

 colour remaining yellow. Examined again Sej/tember 'loth. — The eggs 



