Note 16 — PART I.

As quoted by Sir J. Lubbock in ‘Nat. Hist. Review,’ 1862, p. 345. Weijenbergh also raised (‘Nature,’ Dec. 21st, 1871, p. 149) two successive generations from unimpregnated females of another lepidopterous insect, Liparis dispar. These females did not produce at most one-twentieth of their full complement of eggs, and many of the eggs were worthless. Moreover the caterpillars raised from these unfertilised eggs “possessed far less vitality” than those from fertilised eggs. In the third parthenogenetic generation not a single egg yielded a caterpillar.