126 HIDDEN BEAUTIES OF NATURE 



Each kind of butterfly or other insect has its own 

 special form of egg so distinctly marked that an 

 entomologist should be able to name the insect by 

 merely seeing its egg. 



F g- 37- Eggs of a tiny Moth. Enormously magnified. 



The eggs of certain butterflies are so wonderfully 

 ornamented that in point of design they stand pre- 

 eminently before the eggs of birds. The egg shells of 

 butterflies consist of a tough gelatinous substance 



