THE ENTOSVIOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 906.] SATUKDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 , i860 [Price Id. 
EGGS. 
The importance of eggs can scarcely 
be overrated. But for the eggs of the 
silk-woi'm moth silk would probably 
still have been exclusively a Chinese 
production. 
A sitting of eggs of a Cochin China 
fowl is more easily transported than a 
dozen chickens. 
Those who occupy themselves in the 
rearing of Noctuina and Geometriua 
frequently rear their specimens from 
the egg, and since this has been the 
practice many species have been reared 
of which the larvae were previously 
unobtainable or unknown; an impreg- 
nated female of a rare species is a 
valuable commodity. To obtain fer- 
tilized eggs of a scarce insect is the 
great object of many of our most suc- 
cessful breeders. Once let them obtain 
the means of rearing ad infinitum any 
rarity, and it is a rarily no longer. 
It may be that many aim simply 
at the additions thereby to be made 
to their collections, but others are 
working more entirely for the interests 
of Science, and the obtaining from the 
egg of an unknown larva, and thus 
being able to study its habits and 
record its appearances, is with them 
the real object which repays them for 
all their toil and trouble. 
In the last few years the number 
of Geometric larvae, previously un- 
known, which have been obtained by 
rearing from the egg has been very 
considerable; and now a fresh impulse 
has been given to the study of the 
Natural History of the Tineina, by the 
success which has attended the efforts 
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of some Micro-Lepidoplerists to obtain 
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unknown larvte^by means of eggs de- 
posited by fertilized females. 
We published last week an account 
of the discovery of the larva of Nemo- 
tois Scahiosellus by Dr. 0. Hofraanu, 
and we have lately received from Mr. 
Wilkinson, of Scarborough, larvte of 
Lithocollelis Amyotella and of Bulalis 
incongruella, reared from the egg, and 
we expect shortly to receive other 
hitherto unknown larvas from the same 
quarter. 
We think it would be highly de- 
sirable if Mr. Wilkinson w'ould publish 
some account of his modus operandi in 
obtaining eggs of these Micros; we 
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