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NOTES ON THE EGGS AND YOUNG LARVÆ OF MELITÆA HARRISII

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. Saunders
W. Saunders
Affiliation:
London, Ontario.
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For several years past, I have tried to obtain eggs from this species by confining the females in small boxes, but without success until this year, when several of these insects were taken during the third week in June, and shut up in boxes and laid aside. They were unfortunately overlooked until the 5th of July, when in one box was found a cluster of 14 eggs which were about hatching, and in another 31 in one cluster, and three detached ones near it. Those in the latter box had not been so long laid, and their colour was unchanged, and from them the follwing description was taken

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 4 , Issue 9 , September 1872 , pp. 161 - 163
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1872

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