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PHYSIOLOGY. 



Carpini, the left wing and antenna of which Avas male, but the right. 

 with the rest of the body, was female ; Ernst * a reversed one, conse- 

 quently right male and left female hermaphrodite of Sphinx Convolvuli; 

 Schrank f one of Vanessa Atalanta, in which all the parts of the 

 right side were smaller than those of the left. 



After the preceding, Ochsenheimer sought | to bring under one 

 view all the hermaphrodites which were already described, or Avhich 

 he had himself seen, and partly possessed in his cabinet, and which we 

 shall here add, with the addition of such as have been since made 

 known. 



He divides all hermaphrodites into two groups, namely, into perfect, 

 in which one side is perfectly female and the other male ; and into 

 imperfect ones, where the habit of one sex prevails throughout the 

 entire insect, and the forms of the other are perceptible in solitary 

 parts. 



A. PERFECT HERMAPHRODITES. 



Papilio Polycaon. Dixon, Secretary to the Linnscan Society, sent 

 an hermaphrodite to MacLeay, which on the right side was male, and 

 /'. Polycaon, F. and the left female, and P. Laodocus, F. Thus the 

 identity of this species is proved . 



Argynnis Paphia. Right male, left female, antennae the same, the 

 under side agreeing with both sexes, the abdomen having on the right 

 side an anal tuft. Ochs. 



Lyc&na Alexis. Antennae alike, wings on the right side female, 

 with a faint blue iridescence within the inner margin of the posterior 

 wings ; left side male. The under side as in both sexes, abdomen 

 female, above bluish. Ochs. 



I.yccena Adonis. Left male, right female, male wings and antennae 

 larger, palpi also dissimilar, the left somewhat larger. The abdomen 

 on the right side thicker, more bellied, the left dried up, bent inwards 

 upon the right side, distended exteriorly. In the Royal Museum at 

 Berlin. 



Vanessa Atalanta. Left male, right female ; abdomen chiefly 

 female, but on the left male side more dried np (indicating the pre- 



* Papillons d'Europc, torn. iii. p. 123. PI. CXX1I. n. 114. 



t Fauna Boica, vol. ii. part i. p. 102. 



Naturgcscliichte der Schmetterlinge von Europa, torn. iv. p. 185. &c. 



Trans, of the Linusean Soc., torn, xiv.p. 584. 



