Fig. 128. Four Orange-Tip Butterflies {Evchloe cardamines) on 

 cow-parsley, showing the flower-picturing on their undersides, and 

 the "cutting down" of their out spread topview to a flower-iike form 

 by darkish tips. 



Photographed from nature by Percy ColliDS. 



Fig. 129. Butterflies on vegetation {Papilio ajax^ P. asterUis 

 Jiasilarckia artem-is, and Argynnis idalia), their dark patterns 

 merging with the shadowed portions of their backgrounds, leaving 

 their light markings standing out like lighted leaf-and-flower forms, 

 at various distances. 



Photographed from nature. (Dead butterflies). 



Fig. 130. Light-colored (pierine) butterfly with background shadow-pictures 

 on the borders of the forewin^. 



Photographed from nature (dead butterfly). 



Fig. 131. Small Tortoise Shell Butterfly (Va- 

 nessa vrticfE) outspread on stony ground". His 

 light border-patterns carry the aspect of the 

 background into his wings, disguising their real 

 contours, and making him look like a hole over- 

 lapped by lighted ground-details. 

 Photographed from life by Cherry and Richard Kearton- 

 Courtesy (Jassell and Co. 



