ionn, 1)11 1 became considerably smaller because the enlarged 

 and double ocelli took up most of the space of the white field. 

 In the female we had the purple colored ocelli of the hind- 

 wing, and the same color greatly extended from the base of 

 the forewing along the outer margin extending over the mid- 

 dle field and forming a smoky blue margin to all the wings; 

 the same white field in extent as our local form and the same 

 ocelli. 



These were the two separate characters of the male and 

 female used in this crossing, which could not be changed by 

 breeding each species, separately, in the same temperature 

 and humidity, and these characters did not change by breed- 

 ing the descendants for a few generations in a normal tem- 

 perature, they were temporarily fixed; it was now a question 

 which one of the markings and color characters was the 

 dominant one? We obtained a few more egg-laying females 

 of this crossing experiment, and bred these in the incubator 

 in humidity, the eggs of the first-found female we bred in a 

 normal summer temperature in the glass-house, and raised 

 the caterpillars of this lot there to keep them free of the wilt 

 disease; and as these grew slower we will first describe the 

 result of the other lot of the crossing experiment in which 

 the caterpillars were raised in the incubator and the chrysa- 

 lides bred in about 90° temperature and humidity, just like 

 the parents. 



In the first generation we obtained 31 females, 7 of these 

 had, on the forewings, the character of the male, however 

 the ocelli and appendices were smaller and showed in that 

 way the influence of the female with the small ocelli without 

 an appendix. The ocelli of the hindwings were, in the lower 

 half of the circlefield, more of the purplish color than the male 

 of the crossing, and this purplish color extended, in a few 

 females to the upper half of the circle-field, showing in that 

 way the influence of the female with a purple colored ocellus; 

 however this influence was not strong enough to produce a 

 clear purple color, and in all these ocelli was a small yellow 

 circle left in the upper half, the further up the purplish color 

 extended, the smaller was the yellow ring. We obtained Zl 

 males, all of which had a smaller ocellus on the forewing, 

 and none had an appendix; as the males had adopted this 

 appendix only in the later bred generations and then not all 

 of them, and therefore the females of the crossing experiment 

 with the small ocelli had more influenced these yj males. In 

 the hindwing the influence of the purple-colored female was 

 about the same as in the females of this first generation. As 

 we had learned that selection of the colors will increase the 

 same and wmII, in later generations, give a higher percentage 

 of the selective color, we picked out the males and females 

 which showed the most purple color, paired these separately 



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