Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Pig. 5t).—Pupa of Datana view. Pupa of Datana ajujusii. Eud MEMOIKS OF TilE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. HI Egg.—Laid in inegiilar i)atclies of about 75 on the umlerside of a leaf; oval eylindrieal,larger at the lower end by whieli they are attached, bulging out a little above the base, andcontracting toward the top, which is somewhat erater-like: tlie inicropyle dark, distinct, audsituated at the bottom of a saucer like depression; outside aud below tlu^ rim of this crater isusually (not always) an irregular crenulated edge
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Pig. 5t).—Pupa of Datana view. Pupa of Datana ajujusii. Eud MEMOIKS OF TilE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. HI Egg.—Laid in inegiilar i)atclies of about 75 on the umlerside of a leaf; oval eylindrieal,larger at the lower end by whieli they are attached, bulging out a little above the base, andcontracting toward the top, which is somewhat erater-like: tlie inicropyle dark, distinct, audsituated at the bottom of a saucer like depression; outside aud below tlu^ rim of this crater isusually (not always) an irregular crenulated edge or rim, wliich is partly eaten away by the larvain escaping from the egg. The shell is smootli, jiolished, not pitted when examined by a stronglens, nulkwliite, and resembling cheap white earthenware pottery. Indcr a i inch A eyepiecethe shell is seen to be ornamented with line polygonal areas, but those of the lower part of the eggare not distinctly six-sided, being less regular and distinct tlian in the egg of J). jmJihU. Diameterabout two-thirds nun., being considerably less than the heig
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