Note 9 — Chapter V · THE CICADA: THE LAYING AND THE HATCHING OF THE EGGS
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The Common Cicada’s eggs are of a gleaming ivory-white. Elongated in shape and conical at both ends, they might be compared with miniature weavers’-shuttles. They are two millimetres and a half long by half a millimetre wide.9 They are arranged in a row, slightly overlapping. The Ash Cicada’s, which are a trifle smaller, are packed in regular parcels mimicking microscopic bundles of cigars. We will devote our attention exclusively to the first; their story will tell us that of the others.