OF PAPILIONACEOUS INSECTS. 57 
There are others which are figured all over. In the 
butterfly Hipparchia Egeria, all the surface is 
covered with hexagonal reticulations, as under : 
In the new and restricted genus Vanessa of the 
French authors, we find two species of butterflies, 
which differ but little in their forms, the chief dis- 
tinction being, that the one is much larger than the 
other: yet the eggs are so dissimilar, that they would 
indicate insects of a totally different form. Those of 
the small Tortoise-shell Butterfly are ofa cylindrical 
shape, with eight prominent ribs, as under : 
While the eggs of the large Tortoise-shell Butterfly 
are ofa flask shape, and quite smooth, as represented 
beneath : 
