154 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



about the lanes and open fields. It usually 

 deposits its tiny and delicately marked eg!_;'s, illus- 

 trated in Fig. I02, amongst various grasses. As a 

 concluding illustration (Fig. 103) I have shown the 



Fig. 102. Eggs of the common Meadow Brown 

 Butterfly, x 30 diameters 



beautiful eggs of the Small Copper Butterfly, which 

 a good search with a hand-glass, amongst dock 

 leaves in wood-ridings and other places that this 

 common insect frequents, may reveal. 



What purpose do these artistic and microscopic 

 sculpturings and engravings serve on eggs of 

 insects? In all of Nature's minute works we 

 discover the same lavish fecundity of symmetrical 



