Note 2 — Chapter V · ABERRATIONS OF INSTINCT
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
I have suggested that the insect’s rudimentary intelligence has practically the same limitations everywhere. The accidental difficulty which one insect is powerless to overcome, in default of a gleam of judgment, any other, no matter what its genus or species, will be equally unable to overcome. To vary the evidence, I will borrow my next example from the Lepidoptera.2