Four pairs are collected in the morning and placed, with some twigs off the pine-tree, in a spacious; cage.

The sight is hardly worth my attention; deprived of the possibility of flight, the insects cannot behave as in the open.

At most I see a male from time to time approaching his beloved; he spreads out the leaves of his antennae, and agitates them so that they shiver slightly; he is perhaps informing himself if he is welcome.

Thereupon he puts on his finest airs and exhibits his attainments.

It is a useless display; the female is motionless, as though insensible to these demonstrations.