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Bionomics of Pediciilus 
During the day the boxes were carried in the pockets of a waistcoat, 
the eggs laid being hatched in the same or similarly fitted boxes carried 
beneath the clothing. 
The only section of the experiments in which this procedure was 
modified was in that dealing with the eggs of $$ submitted to differential 
Figs. 1 and 2. 
Breeding method when a large number of segregated individuals or broods 
have to be fed at the same time. 
feeding (Table VIII) and the trials conducted to test variability in 
hatching (Table IX), in which it was thought desirable to keep the eggs 
at a constant temperature. In both these instances the eggs were 
laid on cloth and placed in glass tubes plugged with cotton-wool, the 
tribes being kept in a humid incubator having a constant temperature 
of 31° C. 
