RESEMBLANCES AMONG ANIMALS. 93 
remarkable, another Longicorn of a distinct group, 
Streptolabis hispoides, was found by Mr. Bates, which 
resembles the same insect with equal minuteness,—a 
case exactly parallel to that among butterflies, where 
species of two or three distinct groups mimicked the 
same Heliconia. Many of the soft-winged beetles 
(Malacoderms) are excessively abundant in indivi- 
duals, and it is probable that they have some similar 
protection, more especially as other species often strik- 
ingly resemble them. A Longicorn beetle, Precilo- 
derma terminale, found in Jamaica, is coloured exactly 
in the same way as a Lycus (one of the Malacoderms) 
from the same island. Eroschema poweri, a Longicorn 
from Australia, might certainly be taken for one of 
the same group, and several species from the Malay 
Islands are equally deceptive. In the Island of Celebes 
I found one of this group, having the whole body and 
elytra of a rich deep blue colour, with the head only 
orange; and in company with it an insect of a totally 
different family (Eucnemide) with identically the same 
colouration, and of so nearly the same size and form 
as to completely puzzle the collector on every fresh 
occasion of capturing them. I have been recently in- 
formed by Mr. Jenner Weir, who keeps a variety of 
small birds, that none of them will touch our com- 
mon “soldiers and sailors” (species of Malacoderms), 
thus confirming my belief that they were a protected 
group, founded on the fact of their being at once very 
abundant, of conspicuous colours, and the objects ot 
mimicry. 
