The importance of this fact will presently appear.
As I suspected, my cocoon was truly that of the celebrated Oak Eggar.

On the 20th of August a female emerged from it: corpulent, big-bellied, coloured like the male, but lighter in hue.

I placed her under the usual wire cover in the centre of my laboratory table, littered as it was with books, bottles, trays, boxes, test-tubes, and other apparatus.

I have explained the situation in speaking of the Great Peacock.

Two windows light the room, both opening on the garden.