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eggs, sixty-four of which were on the ground, and the rest on 
the food-plant, common gromwell (Lithospermum arvense). 
Those on the food-plant were almost all on the under side of 
the leaf, and often in pairs or triplets, but otherwise very 
much at random, there being no apparent order. Echinus- 
shaped, longitudinally ribbed. When fresh laid pale yellow 
in colour, assuming a streaked reddish appearance on the 
second day. 
Orthosia Litura.—A female, taken at sugar, September 
21st, deposited on the night of the 23rd one hundred and 
forty-seven eggs, in a compact and orderly-arranged mass, on 
the under surface of a leaf of common birch (Betula alba), 
very similar in size and shape to those of EK. lutulenta. In 
colour, white when fresh laid; in a few hours the centre 
assumed a shade of reddish brown, and a ring of the same 
colour appeared round the middle. The caterpillars emerged 
the first week in October. 
Miselia Oxyacanthe.—A female, taken at sugar, October 
12th, deposited twenty-nine eggs on the night of the 13th on 
its food-plant, common whitethorn (Crataegus Oxyacantha). In 
colour a faint yellow-green. Hchinus-shaped ; longitudinally 
ribbed ; eight long and eight short ribs, the longer terminating 
in a point, and giving the eggs a conical shape, and forming 
an edge’ round a small crater. Most of them were laid 
indiscriminately on the upper and under sides of the leaves, 
singly, and near the edge; a few on the foot-stalk, just at the 
base of the leaf, or at juncture with the twig, or just on the 
twig itself. 
Phlogophora meticulosa.—A female, taken at sugar, 
October 14th, laid one hundred and thirty-three eggs on the 
night of the 15th. In colour a faint yellow. Echinus- 
shaped ; longitudinally ribbed; rather depressed at the top ; 
ribs running up to the circumference of a small convexity. 
All deposited at random: eighty-one on the muslin cover, 
forty on the leaves of the food-plant, and twelve on the 
ground. Those on the food-plant without any order: some 
on the upper, some on the under side of the leaves, some on 
the edge, some on the inner surface, and some on the foot- 
stalk. 
P. H. JENNINGS. 
Longfield Rectory, Gravesend, 
October 16, 1874. 
