INDEX 



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

 quoted in this work. 



Abraxas grossulariata, taste of, 



242 n. I. 

 Achaea chamaeleon piercing 



peaches, 224 n. 1. 

 Acquired characters, early uses 



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



Lamarckism and, 33-42; ' fluc- 



tuations' and, 49 n. 1 ; 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. 



johnstoiii, 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. 



178. 

 Africa, 157 ; thorn-bearing 



plants in, 98; butterfly models 



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, Physianthw, 225, 225 w.l. 



albinism, 251. 



Aleutian Islands, 162. 



Alpine formsoftenarctic,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. Set., 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. asteritts, 182. 



Anacampseros papyracea, re- 

 semblance to dung of birds, 

 102 n. 2. 



Ancestral forms, preservation 

 of, 46-7. 



Anchiaiades, group of ' Papilio ', 

 182. 



Animals and Plants under Do- 

 mestication, C. Darwin, 68. 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 229 

 n. 1. 



