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a minute elevated rim, within which is the micropyle. The egg forms 

 a somewhat truncated cone, but with convex top, and rounded basal 

 edge, the basal diameter being considerably greater than the apical. 

 The basal area appears to be quite smooth. [Describsd August 2nd, 

 from egg laid in collecting box, by a $ captured at Bourg St. 

 Maurice.] On August 11th five eggs were laid by a ? captured at 

 Pre St. Didier. The yellowish-green tint very noticeable, and there 

 are faint traces of transverse striations between and over the longi- 

 tudinal ribs. 



Liinenitis Camilla. — Some eggs accidentally squeezed from the body 

 of a $ , captured at Pre St. Didier on August 10th, were almost 

 spherical, green in colour, covered with coarse polygonal ribbing, with 

 conspicuous bristly hairs, arising from each angular point. 



Crambus saxonellus. — Eggs laid loosely, very pale straw-yellow ; 

 variable in shape, some forming a somewhat oblong-oval, others more 

 pointed towards the apex ; most delicately, but conspicuously, ribbed 

 longitudinally, seven ribs to be counted on the upper surface, the 

 transverse ribs very fine and indistinct. [Described August 2nd, 

 1898, from eggs laid by a female captured at Bourg St. Maurice the 

 same day.] 



Acidalia mutata. — Pale greenish-straw colour, oval in outline, laid on 

 end with the micropylar- (upper) end larger than its nadir. The egg is 

 finely ribbed longitudinally, changes to orange and then to pearly- 

 grey, mottled with reddish or crimson blotches. The micropylar 

 area much depressed and very conspicuously pitted. The longitudinal 

 ribs, of which there appear to be about 16, pass over the ridge at the 

 summit into the micropylar basin by means of a series of sharp curves. 

 [Described August 14th, 1898, from eggs laid by a female captured at 

 Pre St. Didier, on the same day.] 



Euholia / vicinaria. — Eggs laid August 2nd ; very minute, almost 

 spherical ; shell exceedingly shiny, pearly-white in colour, upper 

 surface as if transparent ; no trace of depression ; laid loosely ; 

 apparently quite smooth with no surface markings. By August 7th 

 the eggs had become of a pale orange colour, the shell shiny ; a circulai' 

 area of a rather darker orange tint than the rest of the egg, evidently 

 the head of the embryo; a sharply defined, somewhat linear depression, 

 distinctly visible on one side. No surface markings are visible. 

 [Described from eggs laid by a female captured at Bourg St. Maurice, 

 August 2nd, 1898.] 



Ercbia ciirijali'. — Of a pale greenish colour, turning somewhat 

 pearly-yellowish directly after being laid ; somewhat oval in outline, 

 but with the two poles considerably flattened. Seen from above the 

 egg looks circular, and there are 17 well-developed, somewhat sharply- 

 ridged, longitudinal ribs, passing from base to apex. These ribs all 

 appear to pass over the shoulder, thinning off and forming a rim 

 around the micropylar area, the micropyle itself forming a well- 

 developed Stella. Viewed laterally the egg appears to be of what is 

 colloquially known as "the gooseberry" form, being broader and 

 rounder at the base than at the apex. The surface of the shell is 

 shiny. Egg extruded in collecting box by a female cnptured on the 

 pass of the Petit St. Bernard, above La Thuile, on August 4th, 1898. 

 By August 7th, three females captured at La Thuile, on August 4th, 

 and enclosed in chip boxes, had deposited some 30 ova altogether. 

 These were firmly attached to the inside of the boxes.- J. W. Tutt. 



