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in her as well as in several allied species, seems to 

 be " arrested " at the pupal stage. Hence it is that, 

 to compensate for her want of wings, whereby she 

 would have a chance of finding a mate, she is able 

 in some peculiar way to draw the males to her, 

 wingless though she be, and that too in crowds! 

 So effective is this power of attracting the opposite 

 sex that, in most cases, the female vapourer moth 

 does not move, through her life, many inches from 



Figs. 122, 123. 



Vapourer Moth (Orgyia antiqua), Male and Female. 



the place whence she escaped from the chrysalis 

 condition. 



The Lackey moth we have already alluded to, in 

 the beautiful bracelets of eggs laid by the female. 

 The common name is believed to be due to the mode 

 of varnishing or " lacquering " adopted to hold these 

 eggs together. Perhaps your country walk may 

 have so interested you that it is evening before you 

 return, and the dews are settling on the meadows. 

 In the early summer, this is the time and place for 

 you to see the Ghost moth, or Ghost Swift as 

 it is also called (Hepialus humuH), so named after 

 the white colour of the male. The female is larger, 



