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Two or tliree males died, but ai'e put down for the dates on 

 which they changed colour preparatory to emergence. 



These experiments confirmed the conclusions drawn from 

 Rev. St. Aubyn Rogers's earlier work and stated in the 

 Proceedings of 1911, p. xliv, that misippus was dominant and 

 inaria recessive, although the proportions of the last family 

 were neither 1 : 1 nor 1 : 3, but, on the contrary, very nearly 

 1:2. It was possible, as Mr. L. Doncaster had suggested, that 

 the female had paired with more than one male. 



The white patch which so commonly appeared, represented 

 a patch of variable size which seemed to be always present on 

 the under surface of the hind wing of the female. This under 

 surface marking again represented the centi-al part of the 

 broad white bar crossing the middle of the male hind wing with 

 which also corresponded the white patch on the upper surface, 

 as might be seen by holding the insect up to the light. The 

 white patch of the female appeared therefore to represent a 

 maiking that was very ancestral in the genus Hypolimnas 

 and common to many of its species, including the remarkable 

 H. dexithea of Madagascar. 



