We will break open the twig, and the mystery is unveiled.

The actual eggs are where they always were, though they are slightly disarranged.

They are empty, reduced to the condition of transparent skins, split wide open at the upper end.

From them has issued the singular organism whose most notable characteristics are as follows:-- In its general form, the configuration of the head and the great black eyes, the creature, still more than the egg, has the appearance of an extremely minute fish.

A simulacrum of a ventral fin increases the resemblance.