RESEMBLANCES AMONG ANIMALS 



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leaves conjoined. This effect is produced by the lobes of the brain, 

 which can be clearly seen through the transparent headroof. 



An example which pictures a human face almost as strikingly as in 

 the Taira crab is seen in the chrysalis of the butterfly, Feniseca tar- 

 quinius, Fig. 5. 2 For here the resemblance is developed in remarkable 



Fig. 5. Pupa of the Butterfly, Feniseca tarquineus. (Cut loaned from Entomological 

 News, through the kindness of its editor, Dr. Skinner.) 



detail, with forehead wrinkles, eyebrows and lids, aquiline nose, thin 

 determined lips and straight mouth — all in this case as palpably Cau- 

 casian as the Taira face was proto-Japanese. If the present photo- 

 graph had been taken from a larial mask of Tarquin himself, it could 1 

 hardly appear more human ! 



A second pupa-portrait is given in Fig. 6, in the case of Spalgis S- 

 signata Hoi. In this instance not only are the characters of Feniseca 

 paralleled, but there appear hair (frankly not a vast chevalure) on 

 the " head," pupil in the " eyes," and the general appearance in gro- 

 tesque of the head of a chimpanzee. Xot remarkable, therefore, that 

 the habitat of the " mimicking " insect is West Africa ! 



A third pupa portrait, Fig. 7, again a Feniseca, 3 but I do not know 



2 For the permission to use this figure, and the loan of the cut itself, we are 

 greatly indebted to Dr. Skinner, the editor of the Entomological Xews. 



3 For this I am indebted to Professor Wheeler. 



