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in length, that is, about one-quarter of an eighth of an inch long ; the 
width about two-tliirds of the length. Some of the eggs were still of 
the pale reddish tint of which they all appeared when sent to me, and 
a few were of a green tint—this apparently from being near develop, 
ment. The egg skin was pitted over the surface. With the help of a 
moderate magnifier it had the appearance of being shagreened. Under 
a one-incli power the markings showed as fairly regular circular de¬ 
pressions, so regular, in fact, as almost to give a honeycomb-like 
appearance. 
The caterpillars were loopers, of a colour that might be described 
as dingy green or grey, and had black heads. They were perfectly 
active, moving characteristically in loops, or fixing themselves by 
their sucker feet and raising themselves erect, as if surveying the 
surroundings. 
Taking now the development of the above eggs (which had been 
recorded by Mr. Jesse Garrood, of Ledbury, to be the eggs of the 
Winter Moth, deposited on Apple twigs placed in a box in which he 
himself had confined male and female Winter Moths in the autumn),— 
taking this as a guide, I proceeded to examine progress of eggs on 
trimmings from Pear trees sent to me, on March 12tli, by Mr. 0. Lee 
Campbell, of Glewstone Court, near Eoss. 
This was a very large collection, being the amount of trimmings or 
cuttings from ends of boughs taken by three men in three hours, in 
order to give me an idea of the great quantity of coming infestation, 
which might be removed by pruning in cases where the ends of the 
bough were in reach. The specimens, which were mostly in little bits, 
nearly filled a box about 15 in. long by 7 across, and 5 in. deep. 
These eggs were somewhat differently placed to those on the Apple 
twigs. On the Apple twigs they were mostly on the shoots, though 
some were in the angle between the shoot and branch. On the Pear 
the eggs were mostly at the end of previously cut-back shoots, where 
the drying of the wood and swelling over it of the healing bark makes 
a protective depression. In either case eggs appeared to be deposited in 
the best shelter afforded.* 
Some small part of the specimens sent me by Mr. Lee Campbell I 
kept in my study (in the same circumstances, that is, as those sent by 
Mr. Garrood), and at same date I found them hatching similarly. My 
eye was attracted by the little bright or whitish mould-like spots ; and 
I found similarly empty egg-shells and greenish eggs, and some still 
reddish. The eggs had similar inequalities in the surface, and the 
little looper caterpillars were similar in appearance, and were already, 
* Figures of the infested shoot (nat. size), also of cut-back shoot with the eggs 
deposited in a circle at the end (nat. size and magnified 5 diameters), will be found 
in the number of the ‘ Journal of Horticulture 1 for June 5th, 1890, p. 467. 
