Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 309.—Papilio Memnon. Male.(Black, white, and buff.) This is a strangely variable insect, no less than ten distinctvarieties being described in Dr. Horsfields Catalogue. Thegeneral colouring is as follows:—The upper surface is velvet-black, streaked and speckled with green, and in some specimens O 0 562 INSECTS (iAl». there is a narrow scarlet line on the outer edge of the upper\vings. Beneath, it is sooty black, with a large scarlet spot onthe base of the upper wings, and three
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 309.—Papilio Memnon. Male.(Black, white, and buff.) This is a strangely variable insect, no less than ten distinctvarieties being described in Dr. Horsfields Catalogue. Thegeneral colouring is as follows:—The upper surface is velvet-black, streaked and speckled with green, and in some specimens O 0 562 INSECTS (iAl». there is a narrow scarlet line on the outer edge of the upper\vings. Beneath, it is sooty black, with a large scarlet spot onthe base of the upper wings, and three similar but smaller spotsat the base of the lower wings. The second figure represents a tailed female of the sameinsect. It is a most singular fact that the female should be so. i 110 — Papilio Memnon. Female. ick, white, and lnifT.) very different from the male, especially in so important a pointas the appendages to the lower wings. It is, however, a faclthat the females sometimes have tails, as La here shown, andsometimes have the hind wings merely rounded, like those of TAILED AND UNTAILED FEMALES. 563 the male. Respecting this peculiarity, Mr. Wallace, in his Eastern Archipelago, makes the following remarks :— The first is the handsome Papilio Memnon, a splendidButterfly of a deep black colour, dotted over with lines andgroups of scales of a clear ashy blue. Its wings are five inchesin expanse, and the hind wings are rounded, with scallopededges. This applies to the males ; but the females are very dif-ferent, and vary so much that they were once supposed to formseveral distinct species. They may be divided into two groups—those which resemble the male in shape, and those whichdiffer entirely from him in the outline of the wings. The first vary much
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