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when they alight, have the strange habit of rub- 

 bing their wings together, keeping the curious tail-like 

 appendages continually moving up and down. At many 

 spots in tropical America sulphur- yellow and orange- 

 coloured kinds (Callidryas) are very common, gathering 

 in dense masses, their wings all held in the upright posi- 

 tion, looking like bouquets on the ground, and when 

 roused dissolving, as it were, into fountains of flowers ; 

 in association with white, or with brown and red butter- 

 flies, they represent, in the most deceptive manner, choice 

 beds of flowers on the moist sand. 



With few exceptions, these gaily tinted assemblies 



FIG. 33. Different females of the Malayan Papilio memnon. 



which indulge in this sunshiny life are males, their 

 spouses, which are more soberly dressed, and far less 

 numerous, remaining hid within the forest shades, where 

 every afternoon, as the sun goes down, the gaudy dandies 

 join them. 



Butterflies are occasionally migratory as well as 



