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compared with my original British exponent), two others (both ? ) have been taken 

 at Caterham by Mr. G. C. Champion during the past summer, and have been 

 corroborated for me by M. Ch. Brisout, who tells me that he has the species from 

 the French Alps and from the neighbourhood of Lyons. — E. C. Eye, Parkfield, 

 Putney, S.W. : October, 1873. 



Tanessa Antiopa near Brighton. — A fine specimen of Antiopa was caught at 

 Hassock's G-ate, about seven miles from Brighton, the day before yesterday. It 

 was brought to me alive this morning, and is now in my possession. The margins 

 of the wings are of a pale yellow colour ; from this, and from the lustre on the 

 wings, and the perfect condition of the fringes, I think the insect must have been 

 bred in this country. — H. Goss, 8, Goldsmid Eoad, Brighton : Sept. 22iid, 1873. 



Vanessa Antiopa near London. — On the 28th ult., E. Hoddei', gardener to J. S. 

 Oxley, Esq., was fortunate enough to capture a fine specimen of Vanessa Antiopa in 

 the latter gentleman's grounds while at rest on a gravel path. The margin of the 

 wings is of pale straw colour. The specimen is now in my cabinet. — J. E. Wellman, 

 14, Portland Place North, Clapham Eoad, S.W. : September 20th, 1873. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Huddersjield. — A fine male specimen of Sphinx convolvuli 

 was taken by my friend, Mr. Charles Eamsden, in his garden at Longroyde Bridge, 

 on August 30th, at rest on a wall. Mr. Eamsden has kindly placed the specimen in 

 my cabinet. — James Vablet, Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield : Sept. IGth, 1873. 



Additional notes on the egg, S^c, of Fhytometra cenea. — At page 163, Vol. ii 

 of this Magazine, I gave a description of the larva of this species, with some notes 

 on the egg and cocoon, which I wish now to amend and enlarge. 



On 19th June last, I obtained three or four eggs from a moth which I had shut 

 up in a glass cylinder with sprigs of milkwort ; however, she chose to deposit only 

 on the leno covering. On examining these eggs with an inch object glass, I found 

 that they did not correspond with the short description I had given in 1865, and 

 fancied I had somehow got hold of another species, but in due time the larva ap- 

 peared, and looked and behaved so exactly like the former brood, that I became 

 quite satisfied tliat my puzzle arose from my not having examined the eggs formerly 

 so minutely as I had now done. They had then come to me not long before the 

 hatchuig of the larvaj ; I must have looked at them with a lens of low power, and 

 so missed their true structure. 



I find the egg then is of the usual noctua shape, somewhat flattened, the apex 

 occupied by a small round patch of tiny irregular network ; all the rest of the shell, 

 down to the flat undcr-surface, covered with a most beautifully regular three-cornered 

 reticulation, so exactly designed, that, wherever the eye rests, it involuntarily forms 

 hexagons out of half-dozens of the triangles. Each of the knots at the angles of the 

 network is furnished with a comparatively longish curved spine ; the colour of the 

 shell is whitish, mottled with long blotches of pale pink, which ai'e disposed horizon- 

 tally round the egg ; the lines of triangular network are pink, the spines pink with 

 brown tips. A short time before the larva is hatched, the egg becomes purplish 

 all over. 



