THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 147.] OCTOBER, MDCCCLXXV. [Price Cd. 



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



(Continued from p. 175.) 



Urapteryx samhucaia. — A female, taken July 13th, laid 

 one hundred and twenty-three eggs: eleven on the 13th, thirty- 

 eight on the 14th, sixteen on the 15th, thirteen on the 16th, 

 forty-one on the 17th, and four on the 18th. Of these sixty- 

 six were deposited on the muslin cover, forty on the glass 

 cylinder, and forty-seven on the under side of the leaves of 

 the food-plant; some were laid singly, some contiguous and 

 in order; those on the leaves were near the middle of each 

 leaf, spherical, rather longer longitudinally, the end by which 

 they were attached to the surface rather smaller than the 

 other; longitudinally divided into eight flattened sides, which 

 cease towards the top, leaving a circular space slightly 

 depressed, and around which the divisions of the sides rise 

 in small points; straw-coloured, smooth, but only partially 

 glossy; became orange-coloured on the fourth day; lead- 

 coloured just before the 3'oung larvae were hatched, which 

 took place on the eighteenth day, July 31st. 



Cahera exantliemaria. — A female, taken July 3rd, laid 

 eighty-five eggs: sixty were deposited on the 5th, eleven on 

 the 6th, and four on the 18th. Of these twenty-five were laid 

 on the upper surface of the leaves of the food-plant, goat- 

 sallow (Saiix caprsea), singly and much scattered; twenty- 

 four on the under side and thirty-six on the muslin cover: 

 oblong, depressed on the crown, rounded at the other end, 

 yellow, of the finest gloss, slightly flattened on both surfaces. 

 The young larvae began to appear on the thirteenth day, 

 July 18th. 



Emmelesia decolorata. — A female, taken June 18th, laid 

 twenty-four eggs on the stem and calyx of the food-plant, 



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