INDEX 



The words ' Darwin to ' refer to letters from Charles Darwin 

 quoted in this work. 



Abraxas grossulariata, taste of. 

 242 n. 1. 



Achaea chamaeleon piercing 

 peaches, 224 n. 1. 



Acquired characters, early uses 

 of terms, 3 n. 2 ; Beccari on, 20 ; 

 Lamarckism and, 33-42; ' fluc- 

 tuations' and, 49 n.l ; Darwin 

 on the transmission of, 273 ; 

 de Vries do., 261-2, 270, 276; 

 Poulton do., 274 n. 1 ; Weis- 

 mann do., 274-5. 



Acraea, 239. 



johnstoni, 130. 



Acraeinae, as models, 152-3, 

 178-9 ; as possible mimics, 

 154 n. 1. 



' Acraeoid Heliconidae ', of 

 Bates, 153. 



Adaptation, memory and, 40 ; 

 teleology and, 94-8; natural 

 selection and, 98-101 ; muta- 

 tion and, 279. 



Adelpha, mimicked in S.America 

 by Chlorippe, &c., 176 ; in N. 

 and Central America by Li- 

 menitis, 192-3, 197, 207-8, 

 208 n. 1 ; lerna, 192 ; 

 dyonysa, 192 ; fessonia, 192 ; 

 massilia, 192. 



Aden, 157. 



Aeneas group ofPharmacophagus, 

 178. 



Africa, 157 ; thorn-bearing 

 plants in, 98; butterfly models 



x in, 152-3 ; mimicry in, 161. 



Agassiz, A., support to Darwin 



by, 2. 



Agassiz, L., opposed to Darwin, 

 23, 54-5 ; Darwin to, 68-9. 



Albany, N.Y., stripeless L. arch- 

 ippus at, 166 n. 2, 211-12. 



albens, Physianthtt*, 225, 225 n.l. 



albinism, 251. 



Aleutian Islands, 162. 



Alpine forms often arctic,45, 123, 

 123 n. 2 ; plants dwarfed, 

 273. 



Alydus, mimicking ants, 116. 



Amazons, 126. 



America : see also ' N. America ' 

 and ' S. America ' ; evolution 

 in, 1-3 ; palaeontology in, 2-3; 

 probably uninhabited by early 

 man, 35 n. 2 ; Pharmacopha- 

 gus in, 177-81. 



American Assoc. Adv. Sci., viii, 

 1, 48, 57, 154, 156 ; Darwin 

 Centenary of the, viii, 1, 57. 



American Naturalist, 142. 



americus, subsp. of Pap. poly- 

 xenes, 184. 



Amphidesmus analis, mimick- 

 ing a Lycid beetle, 121-2. 



ampliata, f. of Pap. asterius, 182. 



Anacampseros papyracea, re- 

 semblance to dung of birds, 

 102 n. 2. 



Ancestral forms, preservation 

 of, 46-7. 



Anchisiades, group of ' Papilio ', 

 182. 



Animals and Plants under Do- 

 mestication, C. Darwin, 68. 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 229 

 n. 1. 



