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of mimicry brought forward and 

 supported by (1879), 212, 213,223; 

 letters from Darwin to, 225, 228, 

 233, 272 n. I (although Meldola's 

 name is not mentioned in this foot- 

 note) ; on uniformity throughout 

 nauseous groups of butterflies, 234, 

 278. 



Melinaea, a central type of Itho- 

 miine pattern, 234 ; Heliconius re- 

 sembles the nearly related Eueides far 

 less closely than it does the remote, 

 235 ; Danaini and Euploeini com- 

 pared with Heliconius and, 334. 



Melinaea mneme, 331-3. 



Melhida, see Tirumala. 



Melsetter, Gazaland, S.E. 



Rhodesia, attack of drongo on dis- 

 tasteful moth witnessed at, 284. 



Melynias, see Elymnias. 



Melynias malelas {Elymnias leuco- 

 cyma), 372. 



Melyridae mimicking Lycidae, 

 276. 



Metnbracidae, protective (pro- 

 cryptic) resemblance developed in 

 shield rather than in insect itself, 

 258, 259 ; mimicry of ant developed 

 in shield rather than in insect itself, 

 258, 258 (Fig. 6), 259, 280, 369; 

 resemblance to leaf-carrying ant with 

 its leaf, of larval, 259, 259 (Fig. 7), 

 260, 280, 377. 



Memory versus imagination, 196-8. 



Mendel, Abbe' Gregoire, the great 

 discovery of: see Mendelian prin- 

 ciple ; Weismann's discoveries appro- 

 priated under the name of, xiii, xxxvi, 

 xxxvii, xxxvii n. 1. 



Mendelian principle in heredity, 

 discovery of, xxix ; rediscovery of, by 

 De Vries, Correns, and Tschermak, 

 xxix ; nature of, xxix-xxxiii ; infer- 

 ences from concerning the germ- 

 cells, xxxi-xxxiii ; a fascinating addi- 

 tion to knowledge, xxxiii ; value of, 

 xxxiv, xxxv ; probable immense im- 

 portance of in Artificial Selection, 

 xxxv ; the importance of, greatly 

 exaggerated, xiii, xiv, xxxvii n. 2 ; 

 affords but little help in solving the 

 problem of evolution, xxxiii- xxxv; 

 abundant hybrids which do not follow 

 the, xxxv, xxxv n. 1 ; proof by Mendel 

 himself that hybrids of Hieracium 

 do not follow the, xxxv n. I ; Correns 

 on limitation of, to crosses between 



varieties, xxxv n. 2 : increasing com- 

 plexity in the hypothetical germinal 

 mechanism suggested by, xxxvii n. 2 ; 

 Natural Selection and, xxvi-xxxv. 



Mendelian work on heterostyled 

 condition of primrose, xxix-xxxi ; 

 impossibility of long continuance of, 

 xxx n. 1 ; limited conclusions to be 

 inferred from, xxx, xxxi. 



Mendelism, Mutation, and 

 Natural Selection, Introduction 

 xiii-xlviii. 



Mendelism and Natural 

 Selection, Introd. xxvi-xxxv. 



Mendelism and Natural 

 Selection, no Essential Diver- 

 gence BETWEEN, Introd. xxxvi-xli. 



metidica, Spilosoma, aposematic 

 attitude of, 324. 



mephitica. Mephitis, warning 

 colours of, 315. 



Mephitis mephitica, 315 ; — suffo- 

 cans, 315. 



Mercury, susceptibility to, heredi- 

 tary, 180. 



meriones, Papilio, non-mimetic 

 ancestor in Madagascar of African 

 species of Pap. dardatius with 

 mimetic females, 245, 373 : see also 

 dardanus. 



merope, the W. sub-sp. of Papilio 

 dardanus, 374 : see also dardanus. 



Merops philippinus, 285, 286, 289; 

 — swinhoei, 287. 



Merostomata, great development 

 of, in Silurian, 40. 



Merrifield, F., results obtained by, 

 quoted in Essay X, 293 ; on seasonal 

 changes in British Lepidoptera, 311. 



Mesozoic time, waste and sedi- 

 mentation in, 16 ; Scudder's views 

 on evolution of higher insects in, 35 ; 

 Angiosperms appear late in, 45. 



Metaphyta compared with Proto- 

 phyta, 120. 



Metazoa, originate from Protozoa, 

 23 ; the meteoric hypothesis and, 

 24 ; place in classification of, 25 ; 

 evolutionary history of phyla of, 26, 

 27 ; pre-Cambrian evolution in, 31 ; 

 compared with Protozoa, 120. 



Metazoon, development of illus- 

 trated description of Diagram II, 

 127, 128, 130, 131. 



Meteoric dust on ocean floor, 20 ; 

 hypothesis of origin of territorial life, 

 22-4. 



