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NYMPHALIDiE. Eggs very large, few, soft, not so high as wide, 

 trongly reticulate with elevated, translucent, chitinous (?) lines crossing 

 the surface asymmetrically, enclosing pentagonal and hexagonal spaces, 

 and bearing long, acute, often bifid spines at their intersection. This 

 group is a large and, so far as the eggs go, a very homogeneous one, but 

 the caterpillars vary greatly. Type Nymphalis (Limenitis) populi. 



HETEROPODA. 



LYC-ffiNID^. Eggs hard, small, numerous, much wider than 

 high, reticulate, with a whitish, calcareous (?) accretion forming an 

 asymmetrical network of tetragons. 



Subdivisions of the LyccBnidce. 



AMBLYFOBINM. Egg at least half as high as wide, convex above, widest 

 well above the base, with numeroas delicate intersecting ridges bearing 

 acute spines at their crossing. 



DEUDOBIGIN^. Egg similar, with short, truncate spines. Clasps {harpagones) 

 small, aborted, attached immoveablj to the projecting intromittent organ. 



THECLINM. Egg fully half as high as wide, convex above, widest close to the 

 base, with coarse, minutely vesicular reticulations forming large irregular 

 pits over the garftice, and bearing broad, depressed tubercles at their in- 

 tersection. 



LTGJENIN^. Egg less than half as high as wide, concave above, " turban- 

 ehaped" (as Mr. Scudder calls it), widest above the middle, reticulations 

 coarse and asymmetrical. 



PORITIN^. Egg hexahedral, otherwise similar. This is the only egg known 

 to me that is not round in horizontal section. I hope to figure this extra- 

 ordinary form in my forthcoming article on this subject. 



QEBTDINJ^. Egg less than one-third as high as wide, delicately and 

 sometimes obsolesceutly reticulate, sometimes carinate, flat above and 

 below. 



ERYCINID^. Egg not so high as wide, smooth, granulate or 

 prickly, neither reticulate nor radiate in the few genera examined 

 by me. 



LIBYTHEID^. ^gg ampulliform, shaped like a soda-water bot- 

 tle, twice as high as wide, forming a short neck or stalk close to the apex, 

 radiate, with strong and anastomosing ribs. Palpi long, pupa suspended. 

 Of the affinity of this remarkable genus with the F ieridce I have no 

 doubt. Westwood remarks on the similarity of their larvae. 



H E X A P D A. 



PIERID-Sj. Egg as in the Libytheidce. Palpi short, pupa girt. 



PAPILIONIDiB. Egg dome-shaped, smooth or obscurely facetted, 



not so high as wide, somewhat leathery, opaque. The egg of Farnassiusy 



