COLOR AND PATTERN IN ANIMATES 



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with great fidelity a short broken- 

 off brancli or chip of bark. Nu- 

 merous other moths and caterpil- 

 lars resemble bark and habitually 

 rest on it. Catocala, Schizura, 

 and other genera furnish ex- 

 amples familiar to the moth col- 

 lector. 



.here are numerous instancop; 

 Oi s^ -.^ial protective resemblance 

 among spiders. Many spiders 

 that live habitually on tree 

 trunks resemble bits of bark or 

 small, irregular masses of lichen. 

 A whole family of spiders, wliich 

 live in flower cups lying in wait 

 for insects, are VNiiite and pink 

 and particolored, resembling the 

 markings of the special flowers 

 frequented by them. This is, of 

 com-se, a special resemblance not 

 so much for protection as for ag- 

 gi'ession; the insects coming to 

 visit the flowers are unable to 

 distinguish the spiders and fall 

 an easy prey to them. 



Any field student of insects, 

 b}^ paying attention to the matter of .-^iiecial j^rotective resem- 

 blance, C{?n soon make up a striking list of examples. Some 

 of these may be more convincing to him than to persons soe- 

 ^.*— ing his si>eoimons 



Hi 11 "'"^^ — i^ t^^c c()l'ectinj« 



^•^^^^^jMM^^ ])oxes, and sonic 



V. .;':'" "\ indee«l will jirol)- 



'l^fci. ij^jK ably be qucs- 



^"^^^^''^^^«:^ tioned by closet 



natundists. liut 

 nevertheless no 

 collector or field 



Ft3. 259.— A pipefish, PA2///o/)/m/.r, wliich resembles the st'U- J . , 



weed amoiiK wliich it Uvea. f-. iI.mI to llotC 



Fig, 2o8. — An insect. Gonqi/lua gonfr*/- 

 loidcs,frnin the 1-ast Inches, wh;th 

 rests on the branches of a bush re- 

 sembling the rosebush, the leaves 

 of which are closely sinjulate<l by 

 the body of the insect. (After 

 Shar]'-) 



