antennae, but the palpi were normal. As there is some- differ- 

 ence of opinion among scientists as to what the antennae are 

 used for, whether for feeling or smelling, or both senses, Mr. 

 Schrader observed these butterflies while starting to feed 

 them with sugar water on his finger tips. Junonia coenia 

 is a very tame butterfly when bred inside of the house ; it will 

 walk on the finger tips when sugar water is placed thereon 

 and pushed near its head ; it generally stretches first its 

 tongue for sucking, then bends sometimes only one or both 

 the antennte at the same time, down to the sugar water, so 

 that the club touches for a moment the place where the sugar 

 water is. and repeats this several times. These butterflies 

 with the abnormal antennae acted just the same way; the 

 two with only one antenna sucked first, then bent the an- 

 tenna several times, and one of them, several times, lifted a 

 leg upward towards the head, on that side where an antenna 

 was missing, as if to learn what had become of that antenna ; 

 the two with no antennae had no trouble to find the sugar 

 just as quickly as one with normal antennae, and lifted the legs 

 upward like the first one. It seems that in this action of 

 feeding, normally as well as these deformed ones, that they 

 know the presence of the sugar water before feeling with 

 the antennae, and even without antennae. By feeding clear 

 water they act in many different ways ; some feel with the 

 antennae without sucking, and some suck without feeling, 

 and a fertile female, if taken from a resting place and set on 

 the caterpillar food-plant, will generally first bend the anten- 

 nae down to the leaf before laying eggs; it will require fur- 

 ther extensive experiments in that line to learn more about it. 

 On the first day our abnormal butterflies kept more on the 

 bottom of the cage, whereas the normally formed ones sit 

 mostly high in the cage. We place the moist sugar-cloth 

 generally on the pot of the plant on which the eggs are laid, 

 but this time we placed some on the bottom also, for the but- 

 terflies without antennae; however they mingled with the 

 others on the next day. Because we had only one male with a 

 single antenna, we put some other normally formed males in 

 the cage with only abnormally formed females, to secure a 

 mating. As we had selected in our other experiments from 

 the descendants of the crossing, the most purplish colored 

 males and females, we selected this time for these abnormally 

 formed females some males which had the most yellow color, 

 to find out if the descendants would get again the full charac- 

 ters of the male used for crossing. 



We found the female with only a quarter length of an- 

 tenna and no club on it, in copulation with a normally formed 

 male, obtained eggs from this female and raised the cater- 

 pillars while young in the glass-house like the others, where 



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