On the morrow, profiting by their diurnal immobility, I removed a little of the hair from the centre of the corselet or neck.

This slight tonsure did not inconvenience the insects, so easily was the silky fur removed, nor did it deprive them of any organ which might later on be necessary in the search for the female.

To them it was nothing; for me it was the unmistakable sign of a repeated visit.
This time there were none incapable of flight.

At night the fourteen shavelings escaped into the open air.

The cage, of course, was again in a new place.