418 Mr. W. J. Kaye's Notes on the dominant MulUrian 



Melinma crameri. 



Of the 28 specimens retained of this species there are 

 the following proportions with regard to the dark area in 

 the hind- wing : — 



The single specimen that shows a band above only 

 shows it very indistinctly, but the seven that show banding 

 beneath have it well defined, three of them show it par- 

 ticularly well, yet on the upper-side it is hardly discernible. 

 A specimen in the Hope Collection at Oxford shows a very 

 distinct band on the upper-side and this came from the 

 same locality and was caught on August 28th, 1903. 

 Seven other specimens were captured on the same day, 

 but all of these were unhanded. It should be noted that 

 this presence of a band on the under-side only, while the 

 upper-side shows no sign of it is particularly instructive 

 and interesting as it shows that selection on the wing and 

 selection at rest are two different factors ; moreover, as 

 it will be shown later, the under-side shows more general 

 agreement in the various members of the group taken as 

 a whole. 



The proportions of the spotted to non-spotted, with 

 reddish, before the yellow apical band is most striking, 

 especially when compared with the same on the under- 

 side. 



* These show the spots coalesced into a band. 



