ANALYTICAL INDEX 



439 



Life, origin of, unknown, 95. 



Life, struggle for, and Natural 

 Selection, 96 ; waste of, prevented by 

 warning colours, 316 ; tenacity of, in 

 species with warning colours, 316; 

 saved by Miillerian mimicry, 327-8. 



Light, stimulus of, in adjustable 

 protective resemblance, 305. 



Limacina appears in Tertiary, 42. 



Limbs, origin of Vertebrate, 108-9. 



Limenitis, conspicuous and pro- 

 bably distasteful, 218; (Basi/archia) 

 N. American species of, mimicking 

 A. plexippus, 274; resemblance of 

 prorsa f. of A. levana to, 342. 



Limenitis albomaculata, 217, 381, 

 382 ; — (Basilar chid) astyanax, 274 ; 

 —populi, 315, 316. 



Limit to Mullerian Unifica- 

 tion of Warning Colours in any 

 Country, X. 336-9. 



Limnas chrysippits, 70, 71, 88, 89, 

 215, 232, 249, 320, 321, 336, 354, 



355. 364, 372. 374- 



Limulus, allied forms of, in early 

 Palaeozoic, 30 ; appears in Trias, 40. 



Lingula, among the earliest fossils, 

 5 ; persistence of in time, 43. 



Linnaean Conception of Spe- 

 cies as Fixed, II. 54-9. 



Linnaean definition of species, 54 ; 

 diagnosis of species, 58. 



Linnaean Society of London, 

 Transactions of, 85, 211, 220, 221, 

 222, 246, 279, 327, 327 n. 1, 331 ; 

 Zoological Journal of, 218 n. 2, 

 220, 282 n. 2, 300 n. 3 ; Darwin- 

 Wallace, Joint Essay read before 

 (1858), 194, 379 ; Author's paper read 

 before, the original form of Essay 

 VIII, 220; publication of memoirs 

 on Mimicry by, 222. 



Linnaeus (see also Linnaean) : on 

 abandonment of conception of, 62 ; 

 interval between Darwin and, 66. 



Lion, aggressive resemblance of, 

 312. 



'List' or tilt of butterflies, 289, 

 300, 300 n. S, 301. 



Lizard examining eye- spot of 

 butterfly, 210; terrified by snake-like 

 caterpillar, 367. 



Lizards, value of power of throwing 

 off tail possessed by, H4i 325; in- 

 direct evidence of attacks of, on 

 butterflies, 281-3 ; preferences of, 

 286 ; aposematic sounds of, 324- 



Lobster moth, larva of, 253 (Fig. 

 2), 254, 369. 



Lobster throwing off claw, 113. 



Local conditions, J. C. Prichard 

 on adaptation to, 188-92. 



Local influences, inconsistent views 

 of J. C Prichard on, 187, 191, 192. 



Locality, influences of, see External 

 Causes. 



Lock, R. H., on the dominance of 

 discontinuity, xv n. 2 ; on discon- 

 tinuity and colour changes, xvii, xvii 

 n. 1 ; on Mutation, xvii, xvii n. 2 ; 

 on Bateson's and Gregory's work on 

 the primrose, xxvii ; exaggerated esti- 

 mate of the importance of Mendelism 

 by, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxvii n. 2 ; on the 

 importance of Mendelism in artificial 

 selection, xxxv ; erroneous statement 

 of Darwin's opinion by, xl n. 2. 



Locustidae (Protolocustidae) of 

 Commentry Carboniferous, 36, 37 ; 

 mimicry of ants by, 256, 257, 257 

 n. I, 258 (Fig. 5), 280; procryptic 

 resemblance to leaves of, 302 ; 

 specially defended insects attacked 

 by, 318. 



Longicorn beetles (see also classifi- 

 cation of examples of mimicry,39o-3): 

 mimicry in relation to life-history of, 

 243 ; reduction of elytra in mimetic, 

 252. 



Longstaff, Dr. G. B., results ob- 

 tained by, quoted in Essay X, 293 ; 

 on concealment of C. pumilus, 300 ; 

 on reduction of shadow by attitude 

 of butterflies, 300, 301 ; on choice of 

 resting-sites by butterflies, 301, 301 

 n. 6 ; on daylight hours when butter- 

 flies are at rest, 303 ; on epigamic 

 and aposematic scents in African 

 butterflies, 316, 317 n. 1 ; on jaw-like 

 third legs of Heterochelus, 368. 



Lophius piscatorius, 378. 



Lord Kelvin, see Kelvin. 



Lowell, James Russell, parody of 

 evolution by, 104-5. 



Luebo, on S. branch of Congo, 

 type f. of L. chrysippus from, 321 

 n. 1. 



Lycaenidae, value of head-like 

 appearance at posterior end of, 281- 

 3, 325, 325 n. 1 ; meaning of ' tails ' 

 and 'eye-spots ' on hind wings of, 325, 

 325 n. 1 ; wing-fragments probably 

 of, in nest of Microhierax, 291 ; 

 station different from that of model, 



