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are no wingless ones, but among the moths there 

 are some of the females w^hich never have wings; 

 they are the ones to which the following misquota- 

 tion may apply : 



I do not want to fly, she said, 



I only want to squirm, 

 I hate to be a butterfly, 



I want to be a worm. 



Such moths lack ambition, but unlike many 

 females they cannot be accused of vanity, they do 

 not care for powder or paint or perfume, and that's 

 where they differ from the black swallow-tail but- 

 terfly or, as some call it, the swallow-tail papilio, 

 because this butterfly is powdered and painted and 

 uses perfmne. The perfume is used only by the 

 caterpillar. The baby swallow-tail has " eyes and 

 sees not," six of them on each side of the head at 

 that! 



It has strong jaws which open and shut side- 

 wise and in the lower lip there is a little tube from 

 which the silk or web threads are drawn or, as they 

 usually say, spun. This silk when it comes out, 

 you understand, is not in the form of thread, but a 

 sticky sort of juice and it drools out of the lower 



