in the Tropies and their influence on Mimicry. 171 
Hence the wounds inflicted are very unlikely to be sym- 
metrical, but are more likely to take the form of large 
pieces removed from one side only—a kind of injury | 
often met with in £. fraterna. Symmetrical injuries are 
most probably caused by the ground lizards. 
The second point is that, of the species I saw attacked, 
so many are either distasteful, and in some cases models 
for mimicry, or are mimics of distasteful species. 
Xylocopa, a model. 
Euploea asela, distasteful and a model. 
Telchinia violae, a distasteful Acraeine. 
Papilio aristolochiae, a distasteful Papilio and a model 
for one of the forms of female of P. polytes. 
Elymnias fraterna, of which the 2 is a mimic of 
D, plexippus or chrysippus. 
The last case is discounted by the fact that the lizards 
experimented on probably fed chiefly on this species, and 
may never have met with its models. 
Though very incomplete, these observations seem to 
show that the green species of Ca/lotes will eat any insect, 
even those belonging to distasteful or protected groups. 
And it is a great pity I could not continue these experi- 
ments on wild lizards, which, though they required a good 
deal of patience, were comparatively easy. 
I have noticed no other records of notes on these lizards 
except that Kershaw (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p.5) says Calotes 
versicolor destroys great numbers of butterflies at Hong 
Kong, as they visit Lantana flowers, but mentions Hesper- 
idae as their chief prey, and does not give an instance of 
a Danaid or EHuploea being attacked, though both often 
visit Lantana there. 
At Miyanoshita, Japan, I saw a large black “swallow- 
tail,’ Papilio macilentus, caught by a small ground lizard 
allied to the Ceylon species. 
Ground lizards (Lacerta, etc.) appear to be by no means 
indiscriminate in their choice of food. 
Poulton (“ Colours of Animals”), Marshall (Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1902, pp. 339, 435), Rosenberg (Proc. Ent. Soc. 1909, 
pp. [x—Ixii) says that in 8S. America they eat many butterflies, 
Callidryas, Nymphalinae, and Papilio, but mentions no 
distasteful species. 
Thus Lacerta and other ground lizards may influence 
mimicry favourably in some countries, though Marshall 
thinks it has little influence in 8. Africa, while Calotes 
