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that is so marked a feature in the behavior of 

 D. amj)elophila. As this pecuharity of the tan 

 flies is inherited hke all the other sex linked 

 characters, it follows that when a tan female is 

 bred to a wild male all the sons inherit tlie re- 

 cessive tan color and indifference to light, while 

 the daughters show the dominant sex linked 

 character of their father, i.e., they are "gray", 

 and go to the light. Hence when sucli a brood 

 is disturbed the females fly to the light, but the 

 males remain behind. 



One of the first mutants tliat appeared in 

 D. amjiclophila was called rudimentary on ac- 

 count of the condition of the wings (c). The 

 same mutation has appeared independently 

 several times. In the di-awing (c) the dark 

 body color is intended to indicate "sable" and 

 the lighter color of the eves is intended to indi- 

 cate eosin. This eve color, which is an allelo- 

 morph of w^hite, is also interesting because in 

 the female the color is deeper than in the male. 

 In otlier cases of sex linked factors the char- 

 acter is the same in the two sexes. 



In the fourth figure (d) the third and fourth 

 longitudinal veins of the wing are fused into 



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