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So much prominence has naturally been given to the very 
conspicuous development of mimicry among the Lepidoptera, 
that it is not uncommon to hear the matter spoken of as if 
limited to butterflies and moths, and even entomologists need 
to be reminded of the prevalence of the phenomenon among 
other orders of insects. The stinging Hymenoptera furnish 
the most numerous models to members of other orders, being 
closely mimicked by numerous Diptera, by many heterocerous 
Lepidoptera, by various Carabid, Heteromerous, and Longi- 
corn Coleoptera, and by some Hemiptera ; while certain ants 
are well imitated by spiders. As regards Coleoptera, mimicry 
is mainly found within the limits of the order itself—e.y., 
Cicindelids by Heteromera and Longicorns, Carabids by 
Heteromera, Malacoderms by Longicorns, and Rhyncho- 
phora by Longicorns; but certain Cicindelid and Rhyncho- 
phorous beetles are closely copied by Orthoptera, belonging 
respectively to the genera Condylodetra and Scepustus. Lepido- 
ptera do not seem to find mimickers beyond their own order, 
unless the case quoted by Haase * from E. Hartert, of the 
resemblance of a large Cicada to the Indian Thawmantis aliris 
(Morphine) be one of actual mimicry. Nor do Diptera 
appear to be models for imitation, except in the case of the 
hunting spiders, which mimick the Muscide they chase ; 
although the neuropterous Littacus certainly bears a strong 
likeness to Tipula, and may possibly find the advantage of 
that harmless aspect in approaching its prey. It cannot be 
denied that some of the inter-ordinal mimicries are even more 
impressive and striking than those so notable among butter- 
flies, the excellence of the superficial disguise of general out- 
line, proportion of parts, colouring, and markings being so 
great as to throw into obscurity the really vast structural 
discrepancies. Such cases as the imitation of the South- 
American wasps of the genera Polybia and Syneca by moths 
of the genera Sphecosoma and Myrmecopsis,+ of the Bornean 
sand-wasp Myygnimia aviculus, by the beetle Coloborrhombus 
* Op. cit., ii., p. 10. Haase (on p. 11) cites Brauer to the effect that the 
genus Drepana is mimicked by the neuropterous Drepanoptery, which is 
stated to feed on Lepidoptera. 
+ See Haase, /.c., u., p. 76, pl. xiii. 
