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of a pale ochreous satiny colour. The female lays its 

 eggs in irregular rows, varying from two to four eggs in 

 each row, the egg-mass when finished presenting a neat 

 thatched appearance, and of an elongated form. It 

 appears that the sticky egg, in passing from the ab- 

 domen of the mother, becomes thickly coated with the 

 hairs at the end of her body, the basal portion of the 

 hairs, which are dark, being attached to the egg, while 

 the anterior portion of the hairs, which are greyish, 

 remain free. The larva is of the usual lycaenid form, 

 pale green, and apparently lacks the dorsal gland on the 

 eleventh segment and the two subdorsal tentacula on the 

 twelfth segment commonly found in the larvae of this 

 family, and is consequently unattended by ants. 



I should be glad if some members of the Entomological 

 Society would try to breed this butterfly in England. On 

 the twigs sent are numerous patches of live eggs ; also 

 many patches of dead ones, which were probably laid last 

 year, and may be known from the others by the hairs 

 having all been destroyed, and each egg having a round 

 hole from which the young larva had escaped. It will be 

 seen that in many instances fresh eggs are laid in con- 

 tinuation of an old egg-mass. I should be very glad to 

 know if there is any other butterfly which coats its eggs 

 with hairs in the way done by C. odata. The Zoological 

 Society of London might perhaps be asked to try to 

 breed the butterfly. The larvae, I may add, will only 

 eat the very freshest and youngest leaves of the walnut- 

 tree. 



