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Serpents, instinctively dreaded by apes and monkeys. Serranus, hermaphroditism in. Setina, noise produced by. Sex, inheritance limited by. Sexes, relative proportions of, in man; proportions of, sometimes influenced by selection; probable relation of the, in primeval man. Sexual and natural selection, contrasted. Sexual characters, effects of the loss of; limitation of.
He quotes, also, Guenee, that Setina produces a sound like the ticking of a watch, apparently by the aid of "two large tympaniform vesicles, situated in the pectoral region"; and these "are much more developed in the male than in the female." Hence the sound-producing organs in the Lepidoptera appear to stand in some relation with the sexual functions.
The titles of his comedies are Coccus, Fullones, Hortensius, Quintius, Varus, Gemina, Iurisperita, Prilia, Privigna, Psaltria, Setina, Tibicina, Velitema, Ulubrana. From these we should infer that his peculiar excellence lay in satirizing the weaknesses of the other sex.
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