PATTERNS CONSPICUOUS IN NATURE. 



415- 



patterns which experiments have shown must be conspicuous in 

 Nature ^^ 



Text-fig. 19 shows their patterns. No. 3 is like Salatura, a 

 stage between the first and second types. There is, however, an 

 absence of a defined dark margin to the hind wings, the margin* 

 are not scalloped, and the pattern does not interrupt the margin,, 

 though it approaches near to it ; it thus presents some of the 

 characters making for coiispicuousness. 



Text-fi2-ure 19. 



T3-pes of all the genera mentioned in ' Lepidoptera Indica ' as Leing '' protected "' 

 bej^ond those already given in text-figs. 17 & 18. 



1. Seslia. 2. Menama. 3. Piccarda. 4. Bimbisara. 5. Callipltcn. 6. Con- 

 dnchates & Neptis. 7. JSuploea & Pademna. 8. Stictoploea. 9. Penoa & 

 Crastia. 10. Cynitia. 11. Banisepa (the dark tone of this insect should 

 be diirker). 12. Isamia. 13. Stabrobates. 14. Ijibythea (? protected). 15. 

 Ergolis. 



Nos. 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 12 are conspicuous in so far as they 

 present a large, dark, unpatterned area ; their margins are not 

 scalloped or interrupted by pattern ; the marginal spots, when 



* Mimicry within the Papilioniiiiu is only referred to once in an indefinite 

 manner. 



