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The first is the handsome Papilio memnon, a splendid butterfly of a deep black colour, dotted over with lines and groups of scales of a clear ashy blue.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

So it's the audience as a group, not just the individual theatergoer, that undergoes a ritual cleansing while the tales of Oedipus or Orestes or Aga-memnon are being retold.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

That the resemblance is not accidental is sufficiently proved by the fact, that in the North of India, where Papilio coön is replaced by all allied forms, (Papilio Doubledayi) having red spots in place of yellow, a closely-allied species or variety of Papilio memnon (P. androgens) has the tailed female also red spotted.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The Goddes and Goddis toke partes, and all the people of Grece, aided Menelaus, and the kyng Aga - memnon, to bryng home again Helena, neclecting their own countrie, their wife and chidre [n], for one woma [n].

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

The first is the handsome Papilio memnon, a splendid butterfly of a deep black colour, dotted over with lines and groups of scales of a clear ashy blue.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

These are both from Sumatra; but in North India P. cöon is replaced by another species, which has been named P. doubledayi, having red spots instead of yellow; and in the same district the corresponding female tailed form of Papilio androgeus, sometimes considered a variety of P. memnon, is similarly red-spotted.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

But one of the most curious cases is the fine yellow-spotted Papilio cöon, which is unmistakeably imitated by the female tailed form of Papilio memnon.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The giant owl butterfly, Caligo memnon, found in the rainforests of Mexico and the

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

The giant owl butterfly, Caligo memnon, found in the rainforests of Mexico and the

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

The giant owl butterfly, Caligo memnon, found in the rainforests of Mexico and the

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010