Mar , '07] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



89 



Standards of the Number of Eggs Laid by Insects — W 



Being averages obtained by actual count of the combined 

 eggs from twenty (20) depositions or masses. 



By A. Arsene Girault. 



The egg-masses were collected at Myrtle, Ga., November, 

 1906, from peach trees. They were found to be freely para- 

 sitized by Podagrion mantis Ashmead, which was found ovi- 

 positing into them during the month of November. Owing 

 to the peculiar construction of the case, in order to count the 

 individual eggs in each, they had to be sectioned longitudinally 

 through the side, and then dried. Some of these sections 

 exposed quite large larvae of mantis, and occasionally living 

 adults. The eggs are quite common in this locality. 



Prok. M. J. Elrod of the University of Montana is giving considerable 

 attention to photographing Indians in his part of the world. 



• For the fust four of this series, see Ent. Nkws, 1901, p. 305; 1904, pp. 2-3; 1905^.167; 

 and 1906, p. (). 



