Are we to regard these silky "feelers" as a kind of directing compass ?--I resumed, but without attaching much importance to the matter, my previous experiment of amputation.

None of those operated on returned.

Do not let us draw conclusions from that fact alone.

We saw in the case of the Great Peacock that more serious reasons than the truncation of the antennae made return as a rule impossible.
Moreover, a second Bombyx or Eggar, the Clover Moth, very like the Oak Eggar, and like it superbly plumed, poses us a very difficult problem.
It is fairly abundant around my home; even in the orchard I find its cocoon, which is easily confounded with that of the Oak Eggar.

I was at first deceived by the resemblance.