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Different females of Papilio memnon
But the most curious fact connected with these distinct forms is, that they are both the off-
spring of either form. A single brood of larvæ were bred in Java by a Dutch entomologist,
and produced males as well as tailed and tailless females, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that this is always the case, and that forms intermediate in character never occur. To il-
lustrate these phenomena, let us suppose a roaming Englishman in some remote island to
have two wives—one a black-haired red-skinned Indian, the other a woolly-headed sooty-
