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radiatiiiGj ribs, meeting centrally. The shell is almost smooth, hut, 

 under a high power, is seen to be covered with a fine polygonal 

 reticulation. The eggs are attached singly, but laid close together, 

 occasionally slightly imbricate. [The eggs were laid on July 6th by 

 a ? moth, captured in the garden at Westcombe Hill by Miss F. Clara 

 Tutt, and described on July 7th under a two-thirds lens.l 



Zeazeni pyrlud. — The eggs are of a bright salmon colour, and are 

 usually laid in masses. The Qgg is elliptical in outline. Length : 

 breadth : height : : 4 : 2|^ : 2. Under a two-thirds lens, the egg has 

 somewhat the shape of a narrowed hen's e^g. The shell is shiny, but 

 covered with a fine polygonal reticulation. There are also certain 

 irregular depressions brought about by pressure. At one pole a 

 slightly transparent area is visible, over which the reticulation is 

 especially well marked. I find no other characteristic micropylar 

 structure. [Egg« received from Mr. Congdon on July 6th, described 

 under a two-thirds lens on July 7th.] By July 16th the eggs had 

 become strongly mottled with opaque whitish, the eggs as a whole 

 being considerably paler in colour than when first laid. The reticula- 

 tion is much more distinct and has a very regular appearance, being 

 arranged in circles transversely. There are also traces of longitudinal 

 striations, six in number, extending in some of the eggs from the 

 micropylar end to its nadir, and a shallow depression on the long side. 

 The eggs also look plumper, the irregular depressions noticed at first 

 seem to have disappeared in many cases. The micropylar area is now 

 seen more clearly at the free end of the Qi^s;^. It is composed of 

 concentric rings of moderately regular hexagonal cells, leading to a 

 minute depression centrally, the cells becoming smaller towards the 

 centre, and forming there a minute stellate point. 



Abraxas grossulariuta. — The eggs are attached lengthwise 

 side by side to under-side of leaf of food-plant. Each qq^ is oval in 

 shape, with rounded ends, bright yellow in colour, the surface covered 

 with a distinct hexagonal reticulation, each hexagon forming a 

 somewhat hollow cell. There is an oval depression on the upper 

 surface of the Q.ii,Q, not quite central, the hexagons in the depression 

 rather smaller than on the other parts of the egg. The micropyle is 

 placed at one end, and consists of a minute star of radiating cells, 

 placed in a very shallow depression, formed of larger well-defined 

 pentagonal and hexagonal cells. [Eggs received July 8th from Mr. 

 Bacot, described on July 8th under a two-thirds lens.] By July 16th 

 the eggs had become pale straw-colour, under the lens, and the 

 micropylar area purplish-black in colour. At each angular point of 

 the reticulation a very distinct white shining point is now visible, as 

 in the eggs of Kurranthis plnmistraria and IhtiieropJnla ahruptaria. 

 These are quite invisible in the newly-laid egg. The surface is shiny, 

 and the dark micropylar end has quite a metallic lustre. 



Notes on the eggs ov cektain Lepidoptera. — The following re- 

 marks must be looked upon as notes, and not as exact descriptions of 

 the eggs mentioned. I was able to examine them only with a two- 

 thirds lens, used as a hand lens, and could not mount the eggs for the 

 purpose of more accurate description. 



raranje orhiiie. — The eggs are laid loosely. The egg is very little 

 short of being spherical, although the base is slightly flattened. It is 

 of a pale green colour when first laid, changing to a milky-white as 



