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within an inch of her. When the photographic paste is dis- 
solved off in water, mating readily occurs. He also finds that 
blinding the males does not deter them from finding and mating 
with the females. 
Fabre® writes quite spiritedly of the hordes of males that 
came to a captive female peacock moth. For a week they came 
to her each evening, between 8 and 10 o’clock. The first evening 
forty males arrived, and on another evening twenty-five came. 
Two years later he also got large numbers to come to his captive 
females which he moved about the house occasionally but did not 
succeed in deterring the males. He removed the antennae of 
some of these males, and his results and conclusions will be dis- 
cussed later. 
Fabre also experimented on a day-flying moth, the lesser pea- 
cock, Attacus pavenia minor Linn. From high noon until two 
o’clock each day for a week, the males came to the captive fe- 
male, ten the first day and a total of forty for the week. He also 
observed that the moth known as the banded monk or oak-eggar 
attracted males from great distances at 3 o’clock in the after- 
noon in ‘‘very hot weather and brilliant sunshine,’’ ‘‘coming 
from over the walls, over the curtain of cypress trees. The room 
is filled with a swarm of sixty males, keeping up their frenzied 
movements for three hours.’’ With the banded monk he ex- 
perimented by placing the females in loosely-put-together recep- 
tacles and in receptacles hermetically sealed. He found that the 
males discovered the females only in the loosely constructed 
receptacles, and not in the air-tight ones. He made tests also 
with a second species of monk moth, the clover Bombyx, nearly 
akin to the first, and plentiful about his home. He placed six 
females in cages, but not one male appeared. 
Forel* says that a large swarm of Saturnia carpini came to 
his room in the city where he imprisoned females. The swarm 
of males that came outside to besiege his window was such that 
it attracted a crowd of ragamuffins in the street to catch the 
beautiful insects. 
Kellog® gives us some valuable data on the silk-worm, Bomby2 
mori. He says the female moth, nearly immovable, protrudes 4 
~ 8The a = the Caterpillar, Chap. XI. 1916. 
4Senses of Insects, p. 76. 
5Biol. a: 12:152. 1907. 
