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SIMULISM OF PAPILIO MEROT'E. 



resemble wasps, bees, beetles, and other insects, and even 

 some of the small tropical birds, but some beetles are like 

 insects in other orders, flies have the appearance of stinging 

 Hymenopterts , and indeed this copying or simulation is 

 found to occur in all orders of insects. 



Amongst the most remarkable of the simulating 

 Lepidoptera is the African Papilio merope and its varieties 

 of females. P. merope is found nearly all over the African 

 continent, and it is singular that not only are all the various 

 females entirely unlike the males, but that the sexes are 

 possessed of quite different means of protection. 



I'lg. lo. Pafiilio )iirro/>c, St ^t '"^-'st on U-.'il ot .-m AtVican <frass. 



