Another Prober 



no less prompt in resuming their savage 

 kisses. I need not add that neither at the 

 point where they leave off nor at the point 

 where they recommence is there the faintest 

 trace of liquid. The oily exudation occurs 

 only when the pump is at work. To linger 

 over this strange method of feeding is super- 

 fluous after what I have said about the 

 Anthrax. 



The appearance of the full-grown insect 

 takes place at the beginning of summer, after 

 nearly a whole year's stay in the invaded 

 dwelling. The large number of inhabitants 

 of one and the same cell led me to think that 

 the work of deliverance ought to present a 

 certain interest. They are all equally anxious 

 to clear the walls of the prison at the earliest 

 possible moment and to come forth into the 

 great festival of the sun : do they all at the 

 same time, in a confused horde, attack the 

 ceiling which has to be pierced? Is the work 

 of deliverance arranged in the general inter- 

 est? Or is individual selfishness the only 

 rule? These are the questions which observa- 

 tion will answer. 



A little in advance of the proper season, I 

 transfer each family into a short glass tube, 

 which will represent the natal cell. A good, 



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