INDEX 



The words ' Darwin to ' refer to letters from Charles Darwin 

 quoted in this work. 



Abraxas grossulariata, taste of, 

 242 ». 1. 



Achaea chamaeleon piercing 

 peaches, 224 n. 1. 



Acquired characters, early uses 

 of terms, 3«. 2 ; Beccari on, 20 ; 

 Lamarckism and, 33-42; ' fluc- 

 tuations' and, 49 n. 1 ; Darwin 

 on the transmission of, 278 ; 

 de Vries do., 261-2, 270, 276; 

 Poulton do., 274 «. 1 ; Weis- 

 mann do., 274-5. 



Acraea, 239. 



johnstoni, 130. 



Act-aeinae, as models, 152-3, 

 178-9 ; as possible mimics, 

 154 n. 1. 



' Acraeoid HeUcouidae ', of 

 Bates, 153. 



Adaptation, memory and, 40; 

 teleology and, 94-8; natural 

 selection and, 98-101 ; muta- 

 tion and, 279. 



Adelpha,mim.i6kedia S.America 

 by Chlorippe, &c., 176; in N. 

 and Central America by Id- 

 menitis, 192-3, 197, 207-8, 

 208 «. 1 ; — lema, 192 ; — 

 dymysa, 192 ; — fessonia, 192 ; 

 — massilia, 192. 



Aden, 157. 



AeneassTorxTp oiFhannacophagus, 

 178. 



Africa, 157 ; thorn-bearing 

 plants in, 98; butterfly models 

 in, 152-3 ; mimicry in, 161. 



Agassiz, A., support to Darwin 

 by, 2. 



Agassiz, L., opposed to Darwin, 

 23, 54-5 ; Darwin to, 68-9. 



Albany, N.Y., stripeless L. arcK- 

 ippus at, 166 n. 2, 211-12. 



albens, Physianthus, 225, 225 n.l. 



albinism, 251. 



Aleutian Islands, 162. 



Alpine forms often arctic,45, 128, 

 123 «. 2 ; — plants dwarfed, 

 273. 



Alydus, mimicking ants, 116. 



Amazons, 126. 



America : see also ' N. America ' 

 and ' S. America ' ; evolution 

 in, 1-8 ; palaeontology in, 2-8 ; 

 probablyuninhabited by early 

 man, 35 m. 2 ; Fharmaeopha- 

 gus in, 177-81. 



American Assoc. Adv. Sci., viii, 

 1, 48, 57, 154, 156 ; Darwin 

 Centenary of the, viii, 1, 57. 



Ameiican Naturalist, 142. 



americfts, subsp. of Pap. poly- 

 xenes, 184. 



Amphidesmus analis, mimick- 

 ing a Lycid beetle, 121-2. 



ampUata, f. of Pap. asterius, 182. 



Anacampseros papyracea, re- 

 semblance to dung of birds, 

 102 ». 2. 



Ancestral forms, preservation 

 of, 46-7. 



Anchisiades, group of ' Papilio ', 

 182. 



Animals and Plants under Do- 

 mestication, C. Darwin, 68. 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 229 

 n. 1. 



