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INSECTS ABROAD. 



there is a narrow scarlet Hue on the outer edge of the upper 

 wings. Beneath, it is sooty black, with a large scarlet spot on 

 the base of the upper wings, and three similar but smaller spots 

 at the base of the lower wings. 



The second figure represents a "tailed" female of the same 

 insect. It is a most singular fact that the female should be so 



Fig. 310.— Papilio Memnoii. Female. 

 (Black, white, and buff.) 



very different from the male, especially in so important a point 

 as the appendages to the lower wings. It is, however, a lact 

 that the females sometimes have tails, as is here shown, and 

 sometimes liave the hind wiiigs merely rounded, like those of 



