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Professor E. B. Poulton on 
MIMETIC SPECIES OF 
ASILID 
Lasiopogon cinctus 
Laphria gibbosa 
Laphria, sp. ? gilva 
MopEL 
PREY 
A bee of the genus 
A small bee 
Bombus 
Tipula,—s records 
Beetles,—2 records 
A hairy bee such as 
a very small Bom- 
bus 
Flies,—1 record 
Hoplistomerus 
serripes 
Promachus xqualis 
Philodicus gracilis 
Alcinus, 
3 African sp. 
A poclea femoralts 
A white-banded Xylo- 
A rather large bee 
copid bee 
A beetle,—1 record 
Beetles—4, Termites—2, 
_¢ of its own species—1L 
Long-bodied slender 
Aculeate or Ich- 
neumonid 
‘Lepidoptera,—18 or 19 
records : grasshoppers, 
4 records 
Astlus crabront- 
tormis 
IMNoctria, 3 British 
species 
A large yellow dark- 
banded Aculeate 
Ichneumonidex 
“Flies,—4 records : beetle, 
—l record: grass- 
hoppers,—3 records 
Insects of various orders, 
but chiefly Zchnewmon- 
7d xe 
Dasypogon 
diadema 9 
Dasypogon 
diadema 3 
Microstylum dux 
Laphria flava 
Dark — red-banded | 
Aculeates, Pom- 
pilus, Ammophila, 
Xe. 
Uniformly 
Aculeates 
dark 
‘Insects of various orders, 
but Aculeates far 
more frequently than 
others. Models of 2 ? 
are among the most 
conspicuously coloured 
of the prey 
Large Aculeate 
Bees of the genus | 
Bombus 
Laxenecera, 
2 African species 
Bees of medium size 
Lamyra, sp. ? gulo 
A slender blue-black 
yellow - barred 
Aculeate 
Cicada and beetle: may 
also include wasp 
The single record is an 
Aculeate—an ant 
The three examples were 
all Aculeates, but quite 
unlike the Asilids 
Of the two records one is 
an Asilid fly while the 
other is a wasp (Bele- 
nogaster) unlike its 
| captor in appearance 
Proagonistes, sp. 
? pracceps 
Promachus, 
sp. ? testacetpes 
Damatlina, 
2 Burmese species 
Laxenecera 
‘A large dark Fossor. 
with orange legs, | 
such as Salzus 
Large Aculeate 
| The single record is a 
small bee (Halictus) 
totally unlike its captor 
A large Vespa,—appar- 
| ently not a model—was 
certainly attacked, 1 
or 2 records: also per- 
The black and white | 
Dammar bees 
(Melipona) 
A bee of medium 
haps one Cicada 
The models 
| 
TT OS 
The single record is a bee 
Craspedia, sp. 
from Queensland 
Dark Xylocopid bees 
flavibarbus size (Apis florea) which the 
captor superficially re- 
sembles 
IHyperechia Dark Xylocopid bees | The models,—one record 
aylocoptformts and another probable 
one 
er 
The models,—one record 
