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the chaffy scales of the original buds, form a small collection of loose 

 rubbish at the base of the shoot. 



The sprays first given to the butterflies, up to the 16th, had these 

 chaffy remains fau-ly adherent, those given on the 16th had a number 

 of the flowering shoots cleared of these. These first eggs were laid in 

 the angle between the young shoot at its origin and the parent twig. 

 It was plain that the butterflies would not lay on the old wood, nor 

 on the scales and rubbish that had to fall off, and would of course 

 carry the egg with them. Nor would they lay on the young green shoot, 

 its leaves, or fruit. At a later date, when the leaves were well grown, 

 they laid freely enough in the axils of the leaf-stalks, and afterwards 

 on the undersides of the leaves themselves. I am inclined to believe 

 that these solitary eggs would be very apt to be loosened and to fall off" 

 if laid on any part of the young green shoots that were in extremely 

 rapid expansion and growth. 



On May 3rd I saw a L. rdtu lay an egg naturally (i.e., not in 

 captivity). It laid it in the axil of the petiole of a leaf that was about 

 three-quarters of an inch long, the last but one on a shoot (not a 

 flowering one) with four or five leaves ; a second was laid in a precisely 

 similar situation. 



The egg when first laid is whitish or greenish-white, with a pearly 

 lustre. In a day or two it becomes brownish-pink, harmonising with 

 the neighbouring l)ark, and is thus well hidden. 



Already, by April 20th, the eggs were largely laid on leaves, a count 

 giving 2 in axils at base as the first eggs, 11 in axils of leaf stalks, and 

 43 beneath leaves of which there were already many of nearly full size. 

 This, of course, in captivity. 



The egg is 0-7mm. high and 0-5nim. broad, narrowing a little up- 

 ward, flattened below and somewhat rounded on top. It has about 34 

 marked upright ribs, and the transverse secondary ribs are quite 

 pronounced. 



The accompanying photographs will give some idea of its form and 

 structure. There are two eggs magnified 13 diameters, and three 

 magnified 20 times. 



Pig. 3, Plate xiii., shows the top of the egg-shell and the micropylar 

 area magnified 300 times. Fig. 5, Plate xiv., gives perhaps a better 

 view of the micropyle, also x 300. Fig. 4 is a portion of the egg-shell 

 magnified by 120. Fig. 5 shows how the upright ribs terminate at top, 

 except some nine or ten which continue as high flanges in ordmary 

 Vanessid manner. These are seen bent down flat in Fig. 3, and in 

 Fig. 4 several are seen in profile. 



New Species and new Forms of Lepidoptera. 



By COUNT EMILIO TURATl, F.E.S., Etc. 

 I am very pleased to forward short Latin descriptions of a number 

 of new Lepidoptera brought from Sardinia by Mr. Geo. C. Kriiger, 

 Gustos of my Lepidopterological collection in Milan, who stayed seven 

 months this year on my account in this interesting, and almost un- 

 known, Mediterranean island. Putting aside the butterflies, his atten- 

 tion was almost wholly turned to the moths, and he succeeded to tuch 

 an extent as to discover eleven new species and twelve new aberrations 

 or local forms of known species ; a veritable record for a collector in 



