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mr. k. shelford on mimetic insects and 

 Table YIII. 



[Nov. 4, 



Convergent Group 4. 

 (Probably modified Lycoid pattern. 



X,ongicornia. 



Mrt/thrtis 



viridipennix. * 



Fam. 

 Hispidcs. 

 Sotrynnopa 

 cyani- 

 pennis *. 

 I 

 I 

 / 



Fam. 



Melykid-i;. 



Prionocerus 



ccerulei- 



PENNIS. 



Convergent Group 5. 

 (Red-girdled aculeate pattena.) 



\ 



Vespa 



CINCTA. 



POLISTES 



SAGITTAEIUS 



NEUROPTERA. 



Mantispa 



sp. 



There is a considerable assemblage of uniformly-eolonred ocbi'eous 

 species of Phytopbaga of the families Halticidae, Galerucida?, etc., 

 and of mimicking Longicorns of the subfamilies Baperdinoi and 

 Astatheince; these, however, are not included in the table, as 

 sufficient examples have been given clearly to illustrate the wide 

 distribution of a characteristic type of warning coloration. 



APPENDIX I. 



1. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, byR. Shelford. 

 Elymnias arc a, sp. n. 



S . Dark fuscous brown, with the following cream- white 

 markings : — Upper side : fore wi7ig, a submarginal series of spots 

 commencing from below the discoidal nervule, the last one 

 double ; sorne indistinct notching at the external angle ; the 

 external margin is somewhat irregulai-ly scalloped : hind wing, a 

 sub-discal series of internervular spots and dashes, one of each to 

 each interspace, the last interspace but one carrying a double 



