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is yellow or white. The inheritance is, according to Gerould, strictly Mendelian.

Fig. 27. Papilio turnus with two types of females above and one type of male below.

In Papilio turnus there exist, in the southern states, two kinds of females, one yellow like the male, one black (fig. 27). The evidence here is not so certain, but it seems probable that a single factor difference determines whether the female shall be yellow or black.

Finally in Papilio polytes of Ceylon and India three different types of females appear,