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mimics are several forms belonging to the genus 

 Archonias (PI. XI, fig. 10) which exhibit the simple 

 and striking arrangement of black, red and white 

 so characteristic of the Swallow-tail Poison-eaters of 

 S. America. They form one of the rare instances of a 

 Pharmacophagus Papilio being mimicked by a butterfly 

 which does not belong to the Swallow-tail group. 



As everywhere in the tropics the Papilios of S. 

 America supply a goodly proportion of the mimicry 

 cases. A few, such as P. zagreus (PI. X, fig. 8), 

 enter into the black-brown and yellow Ithomiine- 

 Heliconine combination ; P. euterpinus resembles Heli- 

 conius melpomene (PI. XI, fig. 5) ; P. pausanias is like 

 Heliconius sulphured (PL XI, figs. 1 and 2). But this 

 practically exhausts the list of Papilios which mimic 

 Hehconines and Ithomiines. The great majority of 

 mimicking Swallow-tails in S. America find their models 

 among the Poison-eaters of their own family, offering 

 in this respect a contrast to those of Asia where the 

 majority of models are among the Danaines and 

 Euploeines, and of Africa where they are exclusively 

 Acraeines or Danaines. 



The Poison-eaters of S. America fall into two well- 

 marked groups which we may call the red-spotted 

 and the dark green groups respectively. The red 

 spotted group form a remarkably compact and 

 uniform assemblage. The general ground colour is a 

 deep black-brown (PI. XI, figs. 8 and 9), the hind wings 

 are almost invariably marked with red near the centre 

 or towards the outer margin, and the fore wing may 



