130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



things to which yoiiv correspondent has alluded. I shall not 

 take the line of urging the duty of all to accept European 

 insects. That has been rather offensively done in the past, 

 by some with whose ways and language towards collectors 

 I confess nothing in common. But, as one individual speak- 

 ing for himself, 1 must give up collecting only native insects, 

 because (for one reason) I see to what arts, manners, and 

 customs, I am against my will contributing. 



W. Arnold Lewis. 

 Temple, May 20, 1875. 



Notes on Oviposition. By the Rev. P. H. Jennings. 



Seleiiia illunaria. — Laid forty-five eggs on April 27th and 

 28th, all detached from one another and at random on the 

 muslin cover, none on the food-plant; oval, polished, slightly 

 flattened on the upper and under surfaces; pale yellow, with 

 a slight greenish tinge, changing gradually to dark red. The 

 young larvae began to emerge on the seventeenth day. 

 May 14th. 



Anticlea hadiata. — A female, taken on the 19th of April, 

 laid nine eggs on the 20th, six on the 21st, three on the 22nd, 

 one on the 24th, five on the 25th, one on the 26th, five on 

 the 27th, two on the 28th, and three on the 29th; oval, 

 polished, yellow, gradually deepening to orange : all fixed 

 either on the points of the thorns of the food-plant, dog-rose 

 (Rosa canina), or on the edges of the leaves, — with two 

 exceptions, which were attached to a leaf-stalk. The young 

 larvae, which began to emerge on the sixteenth day. May 6th, 

 w'ere yellow, with orange-coloured heads. 



Scotosia dnhitata. — A female, taken May 5lh, laid thirty 

 eggs on the 6th and eight on the 7th, all detached ; fifteen of 

 these were on the upper edge of the leaves of the food-plant, 

 common buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), and twenty-three 

 on the edge of the under surface ; oval, polished, slightly 

 flattened on the upper and under surfaces ; pale yellow, with 

 a slight greenish tinge, assuming a reddish hue on the second 

 day. The young larvae emerged on the tenth day. May 16th. 



Asthena candidata. — A female, taken May 8th, laid fifty- 

 four eggs on the 9th and 10th ; almost all singly, very seldom 



