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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
My females were of good size, very little 
smaller than caught specimens. The 
hatching is a very simple process, the 
young larvae merely hiiing a hole in one 
end and crawling forth. They do not 
eat their shells, which are very pretty 
ohjects, being slightly irridescent and 
delicately tinted with permanent pink or 
lilac hues. 
E. Ourapteryx Sambucuria. On the 
27th of July, 1859, 1 found on the under 
side of a sallow-leaf, at Highgate, nine 
eggs of this species. Considering that 
this is one of our largest Geometrae its 
eggs seem very small, not so large as 
those of A. Groasulariata. They hatched 
in three days after I found them. 
F. Ephyra Orbicutaria. The egg is 
laid almost uniformly on the edye of the 
leaf, generally two or three on a leaf, 
sometimes four or five. In rare instances 
the egg is laid on the stalk or midrib, or 
on the edge of one of the stipules. At 
first it is white, but in two or three days 
turns red, which colour it retains until a 
day or two before hatching, when it as- 
sumes a blackish grey. These eggs 
hatch in from ten days to three weeks, 
according to temperature. I cannot tell 
how many eggs a single female will lay, 
but I should say over 100. 
G. Cymatophora Flavicornis. This 
egg is laid singly or in pairs in the angle 
formed by the growing bud with the 
twig. At first white, it soon changes to 
a bright and lovely pink, darkening in 
hue as its time for hatching arrives — 
usually in about a month. 
H. Plalypteryx Falcula. A female, 
caught near the end of June, I860, lived 
for about a fortnight, laying me about 
the same number of eggs every day (or 
night) till they amounted to nearly 100: 
they are rather large and white. 
I. Bislon Hirtaria. A crippled female 
mated the first night, and the following 
night laid me a batch of about 180 eggs. 
I was a long time before I could find 
them, for they were laid in a thin cake, 
two eggs thick, in a crevice left by the 
starting of the edges of a box in which 
she was confined. These eggs are small, 
are of a bright bluish green, and very 
smooth!)’ laid, so as to remind one of 
a piece of German bead-work. Seen 
through a lens they are shining and iri- 
descent, and look like green pearls. 
Since the first night she has laid me 
several more batches, all in crevices, 
which shows the object of the long 
telescopic ovipositor. Altogether I have 
had above 600 eggs from this specimen, 
and she does not seem to have done 
laying yet. A. B. 
Univeesity Intelligence. — Oxford. 
Owing to some new arrangements with 
the University authorities, we understand 
that Professor Westwood’s lectures are 
postponed for the present. 
N otice. — a Collection of European 
Lepidoptera is for Sale at No. 9, 
Neiie Mainzerstrasse, Frankfort-on-the- 
Maine. It contains — 
Specimens. 
1. 301 species Papilionidae . 1309 
2. 1’22 „ Sphingidae (in- 
cluding Epiolidae, Cos- 
sidsB and Psychidae) . 401 
3. 164 species Bombycidae . . 706 
4. 519 „ Noctuidae . . 1933 
5. 370 „ Geometridae . . 1446 
6. 195 „ Crambidae and 
Pyralidae 684 
7. 297 species Toriricidae . . 1331 
8. 710 „ Tineidae . . . 3417 
9. 47 ,, Pterophoridae . 191 
Total 2725 species. 1 1 ,418 
(including new species discovered by the 
owner and others, which are either in few 
or in no other collections, and many 
interesting varieties). For neatness of 
preparation, cleanness and freshness of 
the specimens, which have been mostly 
collected by the owner or reared from the 
larva, this Collection is well known to 
experienced amateurs as almost unique. 
For further information apply to Ver- 
walter Miihlig, at the above address. 
Printed and published by Edward Newman, 
Primer, of No. 9, Devonshire Street, Bishops- 
pate Without, London, in the County of 
Middlesex. — Saturday, May 11,1861, 
