270 MR. R. SHELFORD ON MIMETIC INSECTS AND | Noy. A, 
Taste VI. 
Convergent Group 2. 
(Coecinellid pattern.) 
ARACHNIDA. 
Genus 
& 
sp. r 
| 
ORTHOPTERA. le | é 
Genus COLEOPTERA. HEMIPTERA. 
near Fam. Blachia 
Gammarotettir.——_CoccInELLID2,—_ Se 7 ~ ducalis *. 
e.g. CARIA 
DILATATA. 
Longicornia. 
EK nte lopes 
glauca. 
| 
Phytophaga. Curculionide. 
Lema ae Apoderus 
femorata * ~~ Casside. javanicus. 
and Prioptera— 
L. quadripunctata *. 8-punctata *. a 
ae ad Z et 
COLEOPTERA. 
There are two species of Protoanthidium coloured in the same 
way; and there is a large concourse of insects of different orders 
mimicking this type of coloration, viz.: four Hymenoptera; three 
species of Bracon, one with very hairy hind femora and _ tibie 
simulating the dilated tibia of its model, and a Chaleid, Megalo- 
colus notator (Walk.); a Longicorn, Lpania singaporensis (Pasc.) ; 
a plume moth ; a Capsid, a Reduviid, and an obscure Homopterous 
insect 5 two flies, Holocephala neav hirsuta (v. d. Wulp), and 
Toxophora near javana(Wied.). The resemblances between these 
mimics and the MJelipona ave in some cases remarkably exact ; 
the Longicorn and the Holocephala were taken in the company of 
the peese all the mimicking Hymenoptera are indistinguishable 
from their model whilst on the wing. In this group I consider 
the Melipona to be the central typical warningly coloured and 
specially protected insect. Asterisks indicate the convergent 
species which are probably synaposematic in the pollowing ‘dia- 
grammatic arrangement represented in Table VIT. (p. 271). The 
whole of the species are shown in Plate XNIIT. figs. 37 to 47. 
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