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•35mm., and gi'eatest diameter -Omm. Shell comparatively smooth 

 and brown, with a central micropylar depression surrounded by a 

 paler coloured ring, and a light coloured fringe of short projections 

 forming another ring round the base. 



Lyccma ari/Ks {(cgon) is another stout-shelled egg, remaining as 

 such from July to April. I have seen a single specimen laid wild 

 near the tip of a shoot of heath, fixed to the stem between the 

 bases of two leaves. They are, in colour, white with greenish 

 shadows and not unlike a button in shape, being nearly fiat both 

 above and below; the maximum height is -SSmm. and width "Smm. 

 The micropyle is situated in a central depression on the top, and 

 appears as a dark dot. The flat upper-surface around this for some 

 distance outwards is pitted with tiny holes and is comparatively 

 smooth, beyond which, bolder sculpture extends over the edge and 

 down the sides of the shell in the form of rings of six-rayed star- 

 shaped points, all the rays being inter-connected and leaving deep 

 triangular pits in between. 



Liicana bellariiici : I have seen this egg wild-laid on a shoot of 

 Hippocrepis coniosa, two being placed beneath a leaf towards the tip 

 of the shoot and about a millimetre apart. They are to be found 

 in June and again in September. In shape and colour the fore- 

 going description of agon exactly applies, as also do the details of 

 the sculpturing, so I will not repeat them ; but the pits are larger 

 and the six-rayed stars are consequently far fewer in number. In 

 size the eggs appear to be slightly 'smaller, the specimens I 

 measured scaling -Smm. in maximum height, and -GSmm. in width. 



Cyanins an/ioltts : The ova of this species are to be found in 

 May, deposited singly on the flower buds of holly ; and they 

 have been recorded also on those of dogwood, buckthorn, and 

 spindle. Those I have found myself have all been of the later 

 brood, and were laid in September on ivy buds ; sometimes on 

 the actual bud, at others on the stalk just below. I once found 

 two ova side by side in this position. They are white with a 

 green tint, circular in form and nearly flat at top and bottom. 

 Height •4mm. and greatest diameter •GSmm. The sculpturing 

 is fine and superficially more theclid than lycfenid in type. There 

 is a central depression containing the micropyle, surrounded by 

 a small ring of comparatively smooth shell, covered with tiny 

 pits, and beyond this the usual arrangements of innumerable 

 six-rayed star-shaped points, with triangular depressions between, 

 continuing down to the base, and giving the whole egg an 

 appearance of great roughness. 



