284 MEANING OF SHAPES AND COLOURS OF THE MEM BRA Cl DAE. 
fly ” (italics mine), seems to have been influenced by the magnified representation on 
Plate VII. 
In Adipjje, and perhaps Ary ante (Plates XL. and XLI.), mimetic resemblances or 
warning colours are again suggested, the most probable models being the conspicuous 
unpalatable groups of Coleoptera. As in so many other cases the extreme 
conspicuousness suggests the Mullerian rather than Batesian form of mimicry. 
Protective resemblance to plant structures of various kinds appears to be the 
interpretation of nearly the whole of the next set of genera, some of which had been 
also illustrated in earlier plates : Godingia, Antianthe, Cyrtolobus, Ili/te, Thelia, Publilia, 
Atymna, Stictocephala , Telamona , and Ileliria (Plates XLI.-XLIII.). Gibbomorpha 
(Plates XLI. and XLII.) however appears to be more conspicuous and may be 
aposematic or mimetic. Some of the species of Telamona, figured on Plate XLIII., 
viz., T. sinuata, albidomata, and turritella, also possess a remarkable colouring which 
requires investigation in the natural surroundings. 
The genera next represented in the plates are those considered as introductory to 
the Centrotidae proper (p. 205). Lycoderes (Plates XLIII.-XLV. and XLVII.) 
includes species some of which (XLIII. 8 ; XLIV. 5, 6 ; XLV. 1, 2) are probably 
concealed by resemblance to plant structures, while others appear to possess warning 
or mimetic colours (XLIY. 1, 2, 3; XLVII. 4). L. burmeisteri may be mimetic of 
some other conspicuous distasteful Homopterous insect, such as a Fulgorid. In the 
remarkable genus CEda (Plate XLV.), the pronotum forms a huge inflated sac, the 
orange-coloured walls of which are transparent and marked with lines due to the 
existence of a branching network. Mr. Buckton considers this appearance to be 
leaf-like (p. 205); but it is more probably a case of protective resemblance to the 
curious cocoons of certain Neotropical moths, which are constructed of an open net¬ 
work of coarse silken strands of an orange colour. The colour of CEda injlata, as 
shown in Plate XLV., Fig. 4, is too dark and opaque to indicate this resemblance. 
It is, however, sufficiently clear in Erich Haase’s, Plate XIII., Figs. 112 and 113 
(English translation “ Besearches on Mimicry,” &c., Pt. II., Stuttgart, 189G). 
Haase himself considered that the insect resembles the empty pupal shell of a 
butterfly. The entire passage from the original work (Stuttgart, 1893) is as follows : 
“ Ein anderer anscheinender Grenzfall gehort dagegen sicher in die Kategorie der 
‘ Schiitzenden Aehnlichkeit.’ Uerselbe betrifft eine merkwiirdige neotropische 
Buckelzirpe Smilia ( Oeda) injlata, F., deren Nackenschild von blasigen Hohlraumen 
durchzogen ist und den winzigen Korper von oben vollkommen verdeckt. So gleicht 
das auf einem Blatte oder an einem Zweige meist ruing sitzende Thier durchaus der 
leeren Puppenhulse eines bereits ausgeschlupften Tagfalters.” The English trans¬ 
lation, by M. C. Child, is as follows : “Another apparently transitional case belongs 
