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

 \vings. 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 



i 110 — Papilio Memnon. Female. 



ick, white, and lnifT.) 



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

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

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

 sometimes have the hind wings merely rounded, like those of 



