416 Mr. W. J. Kaye's Notes on the dominant Milllerian 



the Eueides species the new E. nigrofulva has turned up 

 twenty-four times to the twice only of the usually com- 

 mon E. isabclla. Ceratinia lihilidas is probably only just 

 beginning to be influenced by the group generally, and 

 comparatively few specimens have been taken, in fact one 

 only from the district proper. 



The following table will show at a glance the adherents 

 to each Mclincva, though doubtless the stress is a very 

 complicated one, and inclined to form a general uniform 

 pattern in the long run, rather than four. 



The numbers under each species show the numerical 

 quantity, actual or estimated. 



Some of the above large numbers are estimated only. 

 A trained collector might have detected many more 

 specimens of some of the apparently rare species. 



The result of a single day's catch recorded by Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, p. liv-lvi, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, fairly well 

 upholds the proportion of the various species. Mr. Roberts 

 has been collecting for me for over four years, and my 

 own three months brings the period up to four and a half 

 years, so it must now be tolerably certain that we know 

 all the species of the group and approximately the propor- 

 tion of each one to one another. 



This is a matter of very great interest, and it shows how 

 the Ceo'atinia ina,y obtain protection doubly — (1) when fresh 

 by conforming to the main group, and (2) when it is worn 

 and of a different appearance by being then mistaken for one 

 of another group of species, a group composed of species of 

 Naioeogencs, Ceratinia and Sais, etc. 



Although MeliniBa nmcme is nearly always present when 



* Collector stopped catching this species. He could doubtless 

 have taken several thousand, 

 t See under Ceratinia, p. 421. 



