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midrib ; another was visible on the underside of another 

 leaf near the lower edge. On withdrawing the grenadine 

 cover after the death of the female and examining the 

 undersides of some broken leaves several little groups 

 of eggs came into view. Altogether I counted fifty- 

 two. 



In a few days two of them appeared infertile as 

 they remained colourless like clear glass. The others 

 from the first were of a very pale greenish-yellow, 

 becoming in a few days less transparent, but the 

 shells very glossy as at first. On the 16th of June 

 those first laid on the upper surface of a leaf changed 

 to a pinkish-grey colour, and were marked with a very 

 delicate black diamond-shaped reticulation; a black 

 spot showed also on one side of the egg. The shape 

 of the egg was globular, the shell smooth-surfaced 

 and highly polished. 



In the evening of June 16th two of the eggs showed 

 a central circular cap gone from the top of the shell, 

 aod a slight movement was perceptible of the appa- 

 rently glistening brownish skin of the imprisoned 

 larva. The next morning those five eggs were 

 hatched, and one of the larvae was eating away round 

 the circumference of the shell it had quitted, the 

 others having evidently breakfasted in a similar way, 

 as the clear glassy shells were so much eaten down. 



The larva at this early time being of light-brown 

 colour, with a shiny clear brown head, with distinct 

 black ocelli, and with longish black hairs on the back 

 and sides of the body, these characters explained the 

 reticulated appearances on the egg, and the shining 

 head was what had appeared through the top of the 

 shell. The head is rather large in proportion to the 

 body, but not remarkably so. 



On the 18th June they had each eaten a small 

 round cell or hollow in the upper skin of the leaf 

 close to the remains of the egg-shells, in the vicinity 

 of which they still continued. 



On the 19th they had eaten small deep holes, 



