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that I shall discuss later. It is bright red in color, with heavy 
black markings on the elytra and with the pronotum mostly 
black except on the anterior margin (Figure 1). 
In July, 1919, Dr. F. X. Williams, on returning to Honolulu 
from Queensland, brought back a few beetles of Coelophora inae- 

Fig. 1. Normal phase of Coelophora inaequalis. 
qualis, which furnished the original stock of beetles with which 
I experimented during the greater part of the following year. 
In this stock was included two forms, and a third soon appeared 
in breeding, which to the uninitiated eye appeared to repre- 

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Fig. 2. Eight-spotted phase of Coelophoria inaequalis. 
sent three distinct species, but which by their behavior and 
ultimately by their heredity were shown to be but one species. 
