We shall return to the point presently.

For the moment let us watch the process of breeding, taking care that the critical hour does not escape us.
It was during the first week of June that my assiduous visits were at last repaid.

I surprised the female motionless, with the oviduct planted vertically in the soil.

Heedless of the indiscreet visitor, she remained for a long time stationed at the same point.

Finally she withdrew her oviduct, and effaced, though without particular care, the traces of the hole in which her eggs were deposited, rested for a moment, walked away, and repeated the operation; not once, but many times, first here, then there, all over the area at her disposal.