416 Mr. W. J. Kaye’s Notes on the dominant Miillerian 
the Hueides species the new £. nigrofulva has turned up 
twenty-four times to the twice only of the usually com- 
mon £. isabella, Ceratinia philidas is probably only just 
beginning to be influenced by the group generally, and 
comparatively few specimens have been taken, in fact one 
only from the district proper. 
The following table will show at a glance the adherents 
to each Melinxa, though doubtless the stress is a very 
complicated oue, and inclined to form a general uniform 
pattern in the long run, rather than four. 
The numbers under each species show the numerical 
quantity, actual or estimated. 
LYCOREA, 
STALACHTIS, 
ceres 
30 
pasinuntia 
40 
calliope 
1 
MELIN@/A. HELICONIUS. MECHANITIS.| EUEIDES. | CERATINIA. 
mneme * numata pannifera | nigrofulva | philidast 
400 33 80 2 1 
cramert vetustus 
40 8 a aT ges - 
egina silvana 
70 4 hae Seg See 
MNASiUS euclea ¢ 
; wae , Ths ae 50 
% extreme) extreme 
mneme\ banded | #44) handed polymnia isabella ‘tha, 
400 4 700 2 
eucoma vibilia 
1 1 
Some of the above large numbers are estimated only. 
A trained collector might have detected many more 
specimens of some of the apparently rare species. 
The result of a single day’s catch recorded by Professor 
E. B. Poulton, p. liv-lvi, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, fairly well 
upholds the proportion of the various species. Mr. Roberts 
has been collecting for me for over four years, and my 
own three months brings the period up to four and a half 
years, so it must now be tolerably certain that we know 
all the species of the group and approximately the propor- 
tion of each one to one another. 
This is a matter of very great interest, and it shows how 
the Ceratinia may obtain protection doubly—(1) when fresh 
by conforming to the main group, and (2) when it is worn 
and of a different appearance by being then mistaken for one 
of another group of species, a group composed of species of 
Napeogenes, Ceratinia and Sars, ete. 
Although Melinxa mneme is nearly always present when 
* Collector stopped catching this species. He could doubtless 
have taken several thousand. 
t See under Ceratinia, p. 421. 
