CHAPTER TEN 



THE SWALLOW-TAILED BUTTERFLIES. PARSLEY "WORMS." 

 ICHNEUMONS. THE GREEN-CLOUDED; SWALLOW- 

 TAIL, THE TIGER SWALLOW-TAIL, AND 

 THE ZEBRA SWM.LOW-TAIL. 



BUTTERFLIES 



You remember, back in the part of this book 

 where we were talking about the moths, mention 

 was made of the beauty spot, or nature's conspicu- 

 ous decoration on a lot of the millers. Some of 

 the butterflies also have this trade-mark (Fig. 14)6) 

 and among the swallow-tails you will find it on 

 the inner edge of their lower wings, just at the 

 top edge of the border band. It would be very inter- 

 esting to know why nature is so very fond of this 

 beauty mark, but it would have been a knotty prob- 

 lem for Huxley, hard for Darwin and difficult for 

 Mr. Wallace, or any of the rest of the evolutionists, 

 to give us a satisfactory^ explanation of the reason 

 that this same decoration appears upon birds, fish, 

 insects and mammals. 



For those people who do not believe in evo- 

 lution and who think things just happened, 

 without any long series of education, preparation 



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