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country and woodland species, while dardanvs is a forest 

 insect. Model and mimic would ordinarily only meet at 

 the lines of contact between their respective types of 

 country. Both Mr, Marshall and Mr. Swynnerton to whom 

 I have mentioned this hypothesis agree that it probably 

 accounts for the fact. 



Section II 



Description of Families 4, 5 and 6 : Hereditary 

 tendencies in the details of the mimetic 

 patterns. 



The fore-wing spots of the eenca form. 



Before desciibing the details of these three families now 

 recorded for the first time, it will be convenient to enumer- 

 ate the spots of the fore-wing of the eenca form, of which 

 the five largest were described in 1904 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1904, pp. 680, G81). The terminology then sug- 

 gested will now be extended to include all the spots of 

 the fore-wing : — 



A. Spots arranged in a curve in part below and in part 

 round the distal end of the cell. 



(1) The principal spot (oval) : between veins 2 and 3. 



(2) An elongated spot : between veins 4 and 5. 



(2ffi) Rarely present (e. g. in Plate XXIV, figs. 20, 21): 

 between veins 5 and 6. 



(3) Oval, but broader than (2) : between veins 6 and 7. 



(4) The blunt distal end is commonly emarginate : 



between veins 8 and 9. 

 (4a) Occasionally present (e, g. in Plate XXIV, figs. 

 14-19): between veins 9 and 10. 



B. The spot within the cell. 



(5) An irregular spot, with the inner extremity often 



cut off as a separate minute spot (e. g. in Plate 

 XXIV, figs. 1, 12, 13, IG, 17, &c.). 



C. The submarginal spots, of which four are usually 



present, 

 (a) At the anal angle ; generally minute : between 



veins 1 and 2. 

 (/3) Generally larger: between veins 2 and 3. 

 (y) Generally larger still : between veins 8 and 4. 

 (8) At the apical angle, generally largest : between 

 veins 7 and 8. 



