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getting more and more chipped and worn, and thoiigli the 

 second brood of Chriisophaniis ochimus was just beginning, I 

 began to feel at last that I could not put up with living "a la 

 Turca " any longer. 



So I hired one yiley and one saddle-horse and started for the 

 coast. This proved to be a capital arrangement, as when I got 

 tired of the jog-trot of the horse I retired into the yiley for an 

 hour or two ; and when the jolting of the J'iley became unbear- 

 able, Bersa dismounted and I rode the horse again. 



Towards the end of August and beginning of September I 

 spent another fortnight at Broussa, hoping to make the ascent 

 of Mount Olympus, which I attempted, but the weather was so 

 hopelessly bad that day, that after reaching the second plateau 

 I was obliged to retrace my steps, having seen nothing but dense 

 clouds of vapour, and having got nothing except being drenched 

 to the skin. 



And thus ended my summer in Asia Minor, a country of vast 

 possibilities, not only for the collector of butterflies, but in 

 many other ways as well, too numerous to mention. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE OVA AND EARLY STAGE OF THE 

 LARVA OF ACID ALIA EMUTARIA. 



By Alfred Sigh, F.E.S. 



In the Isle of Purbeck, on August 28th, 1901, I took a female 

 Acidalia emutaria on or close to a plant of Galium palustre. 

 During the next two days she laid several eggs, mostly in small 

 groups, on the sides of the chip-box in which she was confined. 

 In shape the ovum may be likened to an elongated barrel, 

 standing upright. The long (micropylar) axis measures 0*9 mm. ; 

 the horizontal axes being about 0*4 mm., both being about equal. 

 There are about two dozen ribs running up the walls of the egg, 

 but they decrease, by concurrence, to about one dozen at the 

 micropylar area. The interspaces, about double the width of 

 the ribs, are broken up into oblong cells. The micropyle con- 

 sists of about seven smaller and rounder cells lying below the 

 points of the ribs, which terminate mostly just before reaching 

 the micropylar area. In colour the ova were pale ochreous for 

 the first twenty-four hours ; afterwards, to the unaided eye, they 

 assumed a pink tinge. By aid of a strong lens this tint was 

 seen to be due to the appearance of numerous crimson rings and 

 blotches. 



On September 10th I noticed the ova were lead-coloured, and 

 the next day two larvae hatched. The bulk came out on the 



