NOTES on MIMICRY AND VARIATION' 

 By W. J. Rainbow, F.L S., Entomologist. 

 (Frontispiece.) 

 Recently there were added to the Australian Museum cabinets 



CORRECTIONS. 



Page 33, line 10, for ''Strait " read "Strail 



Pa*e 34, line 17, for "different " read '-definite." 



Page 34, line 26, for "in" read " inhabitants of." 



Page 34, bottom line, for "Australia" read "Australasian" 

 (New Zealand being included). 



Plate ii., fig. 1. Figured in error as "Assisting in Confine- 

 ment" This figure "has already been published in 'North 

 Queensland Ethnography," Bull, v., fig. 28, as » Doctor using 

 sucking string," c/. page 33, section 141, which is the correct 

 explanation of the figure. 



^vuuugu uuviuusij uisiauei, rrom one another, it would never- 

 theless be an exceedingly difficult matter to differentiate between 

 the two when on the wing and in flight. Our Australian Lepi- 

 doptera, although presenting numerous instances of protective 

 colouration, affords very little in the way of true mimicry. For 

 this reason such an instance as the one referred to above is 

 decidedly interesting. 



The genus Jlypolimnas, Hubn.( = Diadema,Bo'\sd.),h apparently, 

 as pointed out by Wallace, of Austro-Malayan origin. Of the 

 fifteen species and their numerous varieties all, with the excep- 



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