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Show 1887.J VALUE OF COLOUR A N D MARKINGS IN INSECTS. TABLE B (continued). 237 III. SPOTS {continued). Spots few Seven black spots Two black spots Spots so minute as to pro duce little effect. Spots so minute as to pro duce little effect. Six spots Larva of A. filipendulce Imago of Coccinella septem-punctata. Imago of Coccinella bipunctata. Larva of V. io Larva of V. urticce (normal form). Imago of A. filipendulce- (as seen at rest). Ground. Yellow. Red. Red. Black. Black. Black. SDOts. Black. Black. Black. White. Yellow. Red. IV. COMBINATION OP RING AND STRIPE. Few small white spots also present; rings due to hair-bearing tubercles. Larva of E. lanestris. Black, with incomplete reddish rings and narrow white stripe on each side V. COMBINATION OF RING AND SPOT. Spots on the yellow rings. Larva of C. verbasci Green, with incomplete yellow rings and black spots. VI. COMBINATION OF STRIPE AND SPOT. Dots very minute and produce little effect. Two spots and two stripes on each fore wing. Larva of D. euphorbice Imago oiE.jacobcece (as seen at rest). Black, with red blotches and stripes and white or yellow dots. Black, with red stripes and spots. VII. N O T REFERABLE TO T H E ABOVE TYPES. One blotch on each seg ment. Perhaps referable to the spot-pattern III. The pink colour is scattered in a kind of spot and stripe system. Two unequal areas with opposite colours. Larva of D. galii Larva of 0. antiqua Imago of Chrysomela populi Variable ground-colour, with a row of black blotches, each containing a pale area. The effect chiefly made up by the dark- and light-coloured tufts of hair. Large posterior part red, email anterior part blue-black. The patterns in flight in the imagos would be different in many cases. In E. jacobcem and A filipendulce a conspicuous but confused mixture of red and black is seen. The slow flight of A. grossulariata permits its pattern to be seen almost as at rest. The others are as above described after Table A. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1887, No. XVIT. 17 |
