152 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



pillar coiled up within the egg, showing through 

 the transparent shell. These were photographed 

 just before the larva; emerged. 



Other moths lay oval flat eggs, like the Small 



Fig. loo. An egg of the Brown Hair-streak Butterfly. 

 ■: 25 diameters 



Emerald, Fig. 99 ; others, as many of the Thorn 

 Moths, square, or oblong ones, which they glue in 

 a line like a row of bricks along the branches. In 

 fact, the varieties of form and sculpture in the 

 esf<'"s are almost as numerous as the moths them- 

 selves. 



Butterflies' eggs offer equally attractive and 

 interesting examples. That of the Brown Hair- 

 streak is shown in Fig. 100. These white porce- 



