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pillar coiled up within the egg, showing through 

 the transparent shell. These were photographed 

 just before the larvae emerged. 



Other moths lay oval flat eggs, like the Small 



Fig. 100. An egg of the Brown Hair-streak Butterfly. 

 x 25 diameters 



Emerald, Fig. 99 ; others, as many of the Thorn 

 Moths, square, or oblong ones, which they glue in 

 a line like a row of bricks along the branches. In 

 fact, the varieties of form and sculpture in the 

 eggs are almost as numerous as the moths them- 

 selves. 



Butterflies' eggs offer equally attractive and 

 interesting examples. That of the Brown Hair- 

 streak is shown in Fig. 100. These white porce- 



