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Lampyride were “invariably rejected by the monkey, and my 
fowls would not touch them’’) p. 317). 
A red and blue frog was not touched by fowls and ducks, but one 
of the latter tricked into taking one rejected it (p. 321). 
We may add also those of Haase: 
Erithacus rubecula had to be starved into eating Zygena trifoli: 
(p. 20). 
Fowls always rejected Danais chrysippus, but eagerly ate Papilio 
pammon. Captive monkeys also rejected Danais (p. 23). 
Attempts to feed species of Danais, Pharmacophagus, Delias, and 
Euschema to tame chickens were unsuccessful (p. 99). 
Danais septentrionalis was rejected by caged lizards (Calotes 
mystaceus) (p. 99). 
The following, appended in bibliographic form, are self-explana- 
tory: 
DonistuorPE, H. Str. J. K. Cases of Protective Resemblance, 
Mimicry, etc., in the British Coleoptera. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1901. 
Three species of lizards were found to reject the Telephorid, 
Psilothrix nobilis (p. 362). 
Specimens of Jelasoma populi “were pecked at, but finally refused, 
though killed, by Shama, Pied Mynah, Laughing Jackass and 
Brambling. The Drongo and Graculipica mnigrirostris ate 
several.”” The author says: ‘It appears to me that their 
refusal by so many insect-eaters in confinement conclusively 
proves their distastefulness” (p. 368). It proves nothing of 
the sort. Moreover, ‘‘distastefulness’’ of the kind here claimed 
seems to be no protection at all. Specimens of Cassida equestris 
were eaten by all the birds to which they were offered (p. 369). 
SHELFoRD, R. Observations on some Mimetic Insects and Spiders 
from Borneo. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, pp. 230-284, 
_ pls. 19-23. 
Two tame monkeys (Wacacus cynomolgus) manifested disgust 
after tasting specimens of the Reduviid (Hulyes amena), but 
ate its mimic, the mantis (Hymenopus bicornis) (p. 232). The 
writer says he has proved the distastefulness of Lycide, by 
repeated trials with various small mammals and birds (p. 244). 
‘All the Lycide are strongly distasteful .... A strong vitality 
is correlated with this distastefulness: I have seen a Lycid 
beetle walk away apparently uninjured after it had been well 
pecked by two or three fowls” (p. 267). 
TitcHENER, E. B., and F. Finn. Comparative Palatability of 
Insects, etc. Nature, Vol. 42, No. 1,093, October 9, 1890, 
pp. 571, 572. 
® Haase, E., Researches on Mimicry, Part II, Stuttgart, 1896. 
