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runs down the back. A ring of four''' dark tubercular buttons on each 

 of the two hinder thoracic and on the abdominal segments — those on the 

 dorsum of the abdominal segments, with two points, each bearing a 

 long recurved dark brown hair. The tubercles are in a similar position 

 (transversely) on each segment. There is a trace of a pale spiracular 

 line.— J. W. TuTT. 



Description of lepidopterous eggs. — [Continued from p. S)0.) — • 

 Ennomoa aulumnaria. — The eggs are laid in rows. In the first 

 row each egg is laid on its side, but with the micropylar end much 

 raised above the surface on which the qqq is laid. Each succeeding 

 row is laid overlapping the preceding row, so that, although a flat 

 Qgg, the micropylar end is much higher than the base. The egg is of 

 a deep chocolate-brown colour. It is shaped somewhat like a broad, 

 fiat flask (without a neck), with a very conspicuous whitish rim at 

 one end (surrounding the micropylar area), and a shallow depression 

 on the upper surface of the egg. The rim surrounding the micropylar 

 area is oval, the depression within it shallow, with a cellular aj)pear- 

 ance, the micropyle itself forming a black spot not quite central at the 

 bottom of the depression. The shell itself is not quite smooth, for 

 under a two-thirds lens it has a minutely pitted appearance, with a 

 faint suspicion of the pits being arranged longitudinally. There are 

 also faint traces of a transverse reticulation. [The eggs, for which I 

 am indebted to Mr. Garland, were described under a two-thirds lens 

 on Jan. 15th, 1897.] 



Zcphyrus qiwrcih. — The egg is echinoid in appearance, a depressed 

 cylinder with rounded edges in shape (viewed laterally), the length : 

 breadth : height as 2 : 2 : 1 ; i.e., it forms a long oval in vertical, 

 and a circle in horizontal, section. Its colour is of a yellowish milk- 

 white, somewhat waxen in appearance. The surface is covered with 

 a rough, raised reticulation, formed by two oblique series of curved 

 ribs running from the edge of the apical depression to the base, in 

 opposite directions, thus cutting each other and covering the surface 

 with irregularly formed diamond-shaped cells ; or the surface may be 

 likened to a chain-harrow, in which the blunted teeth (or tines) 

 extend centrifugally, with no regular arrangement of the processes. 

 The apical depression is somewhat hexagonal in shape, its base pitted ; 

 the micropylar rosette, placed centrally in the base, also hexagonal ; 

 the diameter of the apical depression about one-third the equatorial 

 diameter of the egg. The diamond-shaped or rhomboidal cells are 

 smaller at the top, and form approximately about 16 rows from the apex 

 to the base. [The description was made (Jan. 18th, 1897) from an eg", 

 sent to me by Dr. Chapman, laid upon an oak-twig, on which, in spite 

 of its colour, it was not conspicuous, looking like a small, incon- 

 spicuous fungoid growth.] —J. W. Tutt. 



* My note is unsatisfactory here. It says " four." I believe, speaking from 

 memory, that there were four on each side of the medio-dorsal line, i.e., eight on 

 each segment. — J. W. T. 



^^ ARI AT I ON. 



Variation of Phigalia ped.aria. — I have just taken from the 

 setting boards a remarkable series of /-*. pedaria, taken by my brother 

 in North-west Yorkshire, last month (February). Of 33 males, 21 



