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lower median nervules, two discal scries, the innermost consistins of five, the outermost of six spots, and 

 a marginal series of spots, the lowermost duplex ; posterior winf,'s with a costal and abdominal mar!,'iual 

 streak, a streak in and a streak above cell, a small spot in and near end of cell, two short streaks 

 beneath cell divided by the second median nervule, a double series of discal spots and a marginal series 

 of sulilunulate spots. Body above fuscous, margined on each side with greyish, beneath with the thorax 

 spotted with greyisli, and with a central abdominal greyish fascia. 



Exp. wings, 75 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Silhet (Brit. Mus.).— Tenasserim ; Ilongduran source (Limborg— Moore).— 

 Malay Peninsula; Perak (Goodrich — coll. Dist.). 



This species possesses one of those remarkable resemblances to a Danaid which is l)(;st 

 expressed by the term — used in its biological sense—" mimicry," and it no doubt possesses 

 protection from its enemies by the close resemblance to an inedible species.* 



31. Papilio agetes. (Tab. XLIL, tig. 8.) 



Fajiilio Ai/etes, Westwood, Arc. Ent. ii. t. 55, f. 1,2 (1843); Gray, Cat. Lap. Pai)il. p. 31, n. 145 (1852) ; 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 110, n. 233 (1857i; Obertli. Ktudes d'Erit. giwtr. 

 Livr. p. 67, n.l85 (1879). 



Wings above pale stramineous, with a greenish tinge; anterior wings with the following lilack 

 markings : — three transverse fascia3 crossing cell of which the basal is narrowest, a triangular discocellular 

 spot at end of cell, an oblique fascia commencing on costal margin a little beyond end of cell and 

 terminating on outer margin a little above outer angle, the outer margin somewhat broadly black ; 

 posterior wings with the outer margin blackish, containing some linear greenish-grey spots and with an 

 obliipie red fascia more or less margined with Ijlackish at anal angle ; caudate appendages blackish with 

 a central obscure greyish line, and their apices greyish-white. Anterior wings beneath as above, but the 

 central cellular fascia extending a short distance beneath median nervure ; posterior wings as above, but 

 with two black fascite crossing wing, the first commencing near base of costal margin and terminating near 

 anal angle, the second crossing wing a little before end of cell, spotted with red above cell, and terminating 

 jointly with the other fascia near anal angle, beneath the cell are two minute red spots placed a little beyond 

 the outer fascia. Head and anterior portion of iironotum dark ochraceous, with a central and a lateral 

 fascia on each side black, remainder of pronotum greenish with a central black fascia ; thorax .beneath 

 freeuisb-grej', with a lateral black fascia on each side ; abdomen pale stramineous, with a blackish dorsal 

 fascia. 



Exp. wings, 78 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Silhet (coll. 01)ertli.) ; Darjeeliug (Horsf. & Moore).— Malay Peninsula; 

 Perak (Egerton— coll. Dist.). 



■■'■ The search for evidences of evolution is only another form of the energy formerly displayed in the study of what 

 were called " marks of design." The teleologist of "that time is the evolutionist of to-day. The processes arc the same, 

 the results are simply called hy another name. As Ernst Krause has truly remarked, " In the numerous works of the last 

 century which treat of physico-theology, and especially in those on insecto-theology, in which the existence ot a purpose 

 in all the arrangemets of Xatm-e was discussed in all senses, there are probably numerous examples of phenomena ])ertaming 

 to 'mimicry.' Thus Ki.sel von Kosenhof, in his ' Insekten-Belustigungen' (Niirnberg, 1746), describes the resemblance which 

 the caterpillars of geometric moths, and also certain moths when in repose, present to dry twigs, and thus conceal themsidves, 

 but this group of biidogical phenomena seems to have been first regarded from a more general point of view by Dr. Darwni 

 I'Life of Era.smus Darwin,' p. 1(53. /(o^c). . ,., 



It seems singular that with all the current literature on mimicry, which is altogether based on tlie disguises wlixU 

 different living organisms have act^uired to protect themsehes from ever-present enemies, — 



" The grab eats up the pine, 

 The finch the grub, the hawk the silly finch,"— 

 no reflections are ever made on the difference in view which this has effected in the philosophical conclusions as to what was 

 wont to be called the " moral order of the miiverse." 



Sevt. 30, 1886. 6 ° 



