230 
Psyche 
[October 
became darker altho there was considerable variation, some 
remaining light, others becoming fuscous or with dark irregular 
patches. 
The Egg. 
Length .72 mm.; width .25 mm. Color uniformly light 
yellow; cylindrical, sides parallel; chorion bearing some 10 
longitudinal ridges but little raised from the surface, the inter- 
spaces broader; end distant from the cap narrowed for about a 
fourth of the length into a bluntly rounding cone; scarcely 
narrowed to the cap which is flat, the edge bearing five very 
minute hemispherical chorial processes evenly spaced. 
