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with a nankeen tint, perhaps derived from the pale brownish stripes. These 

 are dorsal bands, a slightly darker lateral supraspiracular band, and a 

 very narrow one just below the posterior trapezoidal tubercles. Below 

 the spiracle the colour is paler, forming an almost white subspiracular 

 or marginal line. The abdominal segments have five subsegments 

 (one large anterior one and four smaller ones behind it) ; tubercle i 

 is on the 1st, ii is on the ith (and in the finer intermediate line), iii is 

 on the 2nd subsegment (and in the broad dark lateral line). The 

 spiracles are black. The head has four black spots on either side 

 above ; eye-parts below black ; there are a few very minute brown 

 spots on and round the superior angle of the clypeus. Tubercles iv 

 and V are below the spiracle, one as much in front as the other behind, 

 the anterior is the lowest and largest. The hairs are very short, thick, 

 and rather clubbed, those on the 10th abdominal, and especially on the 

 two tails, are longer, but still thick and clubbed. The head is rough, 

 with numerous shallow pits. There are two tubercles (an anterior and 

 posterior) at base of prolegs. The prolegs have seven hooks. — T. A. 

 Chapman. September 5th, 1899. 



Eggs of Lepidoptera. — Satyrus hennione. Small for the size of 

 the butterfly, white when first laid (August 25th), becoming leaden- 

 coloured before hatching (September 5th), somewhat oval in outline, 

 but blunter towards the base and more slender towards the apex ; the 

 vertical ribs, 23 in number, well-developed ; the transverse ribs fainter 

 (Eggs laid by $ captured at Fontainebleau, August 25th, 1899). To this 

 Chapman adds : " With the two young larvae (described above), are the 

 remains of two eggs, one a mere mass, the other nearly a third of the shell, 

 but in neither case with the apex and micropyle. Judging from these 

 the eggs would appear to have been 1-lmm. high, not quite so broad, 

 nearly spherical but tapering a little upwards, with about 23 very 

 rounded ribs, but with the bottoms of the grooves very sharp ; the 

 secondary ribs continuous, the base circular and somewhat depressed." 



—J. W. TUTT. 



Crambiis (feniculeus. — •4mm. long, •25mm. wide ; ends very square 

 and truncate ; the micropylar end slightly narrower than the other. 

 Rests on its long side, but if fixed up on the narrow end, it might be 

 described as an upright egg, with 16-18 blunt ribs, anastomosing at 

 top (and sometimes short of it), and with 16 secondary ribs crossing 

 them, the secondary ribs seem to be in continuous lines and not in 

 alternate ones, and fail at the base (nadir of micropyle). At micropylar 

 end the ribs form a smaller network, but without any obvious micro- 

 pylar rosette. The colour is at first white, then pale yellow, lastly of 

 a fuller yellow with bright scarlet ribs, giving the egg as a whole a rich 

 reddish-orange colour. (Described September 5th from eggs laid 

 August 24th, 1899, by ? captured at Fontainebleau). — T. A. 

 Chapman. 



Erebia stygne. — The egg is of a pale whitish-yellow tint ; forms a 

 truncated cone, the apical diameter rather less than the basal, the 

 height just a shade more than the basal width, hence slightly oval ; 

 vertical ribs not particularly strongly marked, round-edged, 26 in 

 number, some anastomosing before reaching the apex ; the micropylar 

 area is a small apical depression (not the whole flattened top as in M. 

 epiphron), surrounded by a fine reticulation which the ribs form after 

 passing the shoulder of the egg. There are faint wavy lines crossing 



