A practical way of procuring moths's eggs under my observation last season and the season before, though an Arctia ornata ♂ that I sent to Mr. Dyar while he was in Portland, Oregon.

When I take an Arctia ornata ♀, and she is ready to lay eggs, the moment she shows signs of being stupefied in the Cyanide bottle I take her out, close the wings over her back, and place her in a paper envelope; as soon as she revives, she will commence to scratch the paper with her legs; I then shake the envelope, and if she has given up some eggs, I take them out, give her another dose of Cyanide fumes, and when she revives a second time I have found as many as 125 eggs in the paper.