Egg.—Conoidal, somewhat rounded at base; truncated, nearly flat, a very little convex, at top; the sides a little convex, and marked by about twenty-two sharp vertical ridges, which start from edge of base and end at rim of summit, the spaces between these ridges deeply and roundly excavated; the summit is covered with shallow cells, irregularly five and six-sided, in four rows, not concentric, but somewhat spiral, about a central rosette of rhomboids. Very like the egg of Alope, but there are a greater number of flutings on sides. Color lemon-yellow. Duration of this stage about 12 days.