130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
things to which your correspondent has alluded. I shall not 
take the line of urging the duty of all to accept European 
insects. That has been rather offensively done in the past, 
by some with whose ways and language towards collectors 
I confess nothing in common. But, as one individual speak- 
ing for himself, 1 must give up collecting only native insects, 
because (for one reason) I see to what arts, manners, and 
customs, I am against my will contributing. 
W. ArnoLtp LeEwIs. 
Temple, May 20, 1875. 
Notes on Oviposition. By the Rev. P. H. JENNINGs. 
Selenia illunaria.—Laid forty-five eggs on April 27th and 
28th, all detached from one another and at random on the 
muslin cover, none on the food-plant; oval, polished, slightly 
flattened on the upper and under surfaces; pale yellow, with 
a slight greenish tinge, changing gradually to dark red. The 
young larve began to emerge on the seventeenth day, 
May 14th. 
Anticlea badiata.—A female, taken on the 19th of April, 
laid nine eggs on the 20th, six on the 21st, three on the 22nd, 
One on the 24th, five on the 25th, one on the 26th, five on 
the 27th, two on the 28th, and three on the 29th; oval, 
polished, yellow, gradually deepening to orange: all fixed 
either on the points of the thorns of the food-plant, dog-rose 
(Rosa canina), or on the edges of the leaves,—with two 
exceptions, which were attached to a leaf-stalk. The young 
larve, which began to emerge on the sixteenth day, May 6th, 
were yellow, with orange-coloured heads. 
Scotosia dubitata.—A female, taken May 5th, laid thirty 
eggs on the 6th and eight on the 7th, all detached; fifteen of 
these were on the upper edge of the leaves of the food-plant, 
common buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), and twenty-three 
on the edge of the under surface; oval, polished, slightly 
flattened on the upper and under surfaces; pale yellow, with 
a slight greenish tinge, assuming a reddish hue on the second 
day. The young larve emerged on the tenth day, May 16th. 
Asthena candidata.—A female, takeu May 8th, laid fifty- 
four eggs on the 9th and 10th; almost all singly, very seldom 
