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A great deal of search, was necessary before the eggs were 
found, a large number of leaf-buds and flowers, old and young, 
being dissected and subjected to microscopic examination. At 
last they were found, and uniformly in the same situation. 
In examining the stamen sheaths of fully developed flowers, 
pairs of minute red specks attracted attention, and these 
turned out to be the eyes of very young larvae protruding 
their heads from the surface of the sheath, in the substance of 
which the eggs from which they were hatching were buried. 
These little protruding heads with the already conspicuous 
eyes had a very quaint appearance, and the examination of a 
great many stamen-sheaths showed the larvae in various stages 
of development and emergence. When their position was once 
discovered there was no difficulty in finding any number of 
examples, many stamen-sheaths showing twelve or more of the 
developing larvae. 
I am by no means sure that this is the only situation in 
which the eggs are deposited, but I entirely failed to find them 
anywhere else, though from the progress of the disease it 
seemed likely that some were laid in the very young shoots 
