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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



Position : 



Date of deposition — time of day. 



Where laid. 



Method of laying. 



Loose, fastened. 



Batches, singly. No. in batch. 



Covered, naked. With hairs, ex- 

 cretions, etc. 



Imbricate, irregular heaps. 



Rows or piles. 



In cases, crevices. 



Hidden, exposed. 

 Upright or tiat. 



Relative lengths of 3 axes. 



Direction of 3 axes. Relative to 

 surface on which laid. 

 Influence of surroundings. 



Crevice, hairs, other ova. 

 Size in mm. 



Diameters — height. 



Constant or not. 



Sexual size variation. 



Racial variation. 

 Hibernation — duration of. 



Development before — during — 

 after. 

 Family Characters : 



Pierid — Noctuid — etc. 

 General appearance : 

 Of the batch — resemblances. 

 Of the ovum. 



Colour — at deposition. Relation to 

 surface on which laid. 



Colour — after deposition. Rela- 

 tion to altered surface (winter 

 changes). 



Colour — before hatching. 



Colour — at hatching. 



Periods of change. 



Shape — dahlia-like and hemis- 

 pherical, globular, ovoid, oblong, 

 tiarate, scale-like, etc. (must be 

 accurately given by photo- 

 graphs). 

 False ribbing (caused by pressure 

 of hairs of plant, etc.) 

 Microscopic Characters : 

 (Exact sculpturing to be figured as well 



as described). 

 Surface. 



Smooth — rough — pitted — trans- 

 paren t — glossy — dull — opaque — 

 etc. 

 Hairy — papillose. 



Position of hairs — length. 

 Changes in surface. 



When — why. 

 Colour influenced by changes in 



character of surface. 

 Ribbing. 



Number of ribs. Constant or 



otherwise. 

 Long — short — anastomosing. 

 Relation to micropylar area. 

 Continued to base or not. 

 Edges even or saw-like. 

 Reticulation. 



Regular or irregular. 

 Cross ribbing. Fine 

 Sunk or raised. 

 Micropyle. 



Position on ovum. 

 Depressed — flat — raised. 

 Composition. 



Size— shape of central cell. 

 No. of radiate cells. Shape of 

 cells. Constancy of no. of cells. 

 Relation to ribs. 



large. 



What is Polyommatus ariana, Moore? 



By GEORGE WHEELER, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from page 88.) 



Butler {I'roc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 368) speaks of ariana 

 Moore, as being taken at Murree on the 8th and 11th of August and 

 the 8rd of September, 1885, two of the latter specimens g and $ are 

 in the British Museum coll. and are of the icarus form. Butler 

 however (Ann. lO Mat/. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., i., p. 148, 1888) writes 

 later as follows: C. ariana, ? Thundiani, 19th August ; ^ ? {incoitti) 

 29th August, 10th September; $ 15th and 24th September, 1886. 

 All the specimens with the exception of one taken on 19th August 

 rather small for the species ; the $ appears to vary almost as much as 

 in C. icarus of Europe." Of these Thundiani specimens six (3 J , 3 $ ) 

 including the large one and 2 of those taken in coitn, r/c, the pair 

 taken 29th August, are in the British Museum coll. and present 

 further difficulties. They are very square and compact looking, a 

 complete contrast to eras : the <? s of a dark but bright blue on the 

 upperside, the $ s being almost typical icarus, but all on the underside 

 varying greatly as to the amount of orange spotting and of blue scaling, 

 .the large <? may be put out of the question as belonging, in spite of its 



