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MR. R, SHELFORD ON MIMETIC INSECTS AND {| Nov. 4, 
Taste VIII. 
Convergent Group 4. Convergent Group 5. 
(Probably modified Lycoid pattern.) | (Red-girdled aculeate pattern.) 
Fam. DIPTERA, LEPIDOPTERA. 
Longicornia. Hispide. Milesia Sasure 
Brythrus Botryonopa vespoides. sp. 
* 
viridipennis. cuani- 
pennis *. 
| VESPA 
M baie ; | CINCTA. 
MeLYRID®. PonienRe 
PRIONOCERUS SAGITTARIUS, 
CHRULEI- 
PENNIS. 
\ 
“ \ NEUROPTERA. 
"am. Fam. Wanti 
5 a Mantispa 
Cleride, Erotylide. sp t 
gen. et sp. 7% Tetralanguria 
pyramidata.* | 
There isa considerable assemblage of uniformly-coloured ochreous 
species of Phytophaga of the families Halticidee, Galerucide, ete., 
and of mimicking Longicorns of the subfamiles Saperdine and 
Astatheine; these, however, are not included in the table, as 
sufticient examples have been given clearly to illustrate the wide 
distribution of a characteristic type of warning coloration. 
APPENDIX I. 
1. LEPrporPTrEeERA RHOPALOCERA, by R. SHELFORD. 
ELYMNIAS AROA, Sp. n. 
é. Dark fuscous brown, with the following cream-whute 
markings :— Upper side: fore wing, a submarginal series of spots 
commencing from below the discoidal nervule, the last one 
double ; some indistinct notching at the external angle; the 
external margin is somewhat irregularly scalloped: hind wing, a 
sub-discal series of internervular spots and dashes, one of each to 
each interspace, the last interspace but one carrying a double 
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