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Show 272 MR. R. SHELFORD OX MIMETIC INSECTS AND [Nov. 4, T a b l e V T T I . Convergent Group 4. (Probably mollified Lycoid pattern.) Longicornia. JSrythms viridipennia. 4 \ Fam. TLispidce. Hotryonopa cyani-pennis * . Convergent Group 5. (Red-girdled aculeate pattern.) DIPTERA. Milesia vespoides. LEPIDOPTERA. Sesia sp. Fam. M e l y r i d j ?. P r t o n o c e k u s CCERTJLEI-P E S N I S . / Fam. C'leridee, gen. et sp. ? * Fam. JZrotylidee. Tetral anguria pyramidata. * \ / V e s p a c i n c t a . P o l i 8t e s SAGITTABIUS. I NEUROPTERA. Mantispa sp. There isa considerable assemblage of uniformly-coloured ochreous species of Phytophaga of the families Halticidae, Galerucidse, etc., and of mimicking Longicorns of the subfamilies Saperdince and Astatheince; these, however, are not included in the table, as sufficient examples have been given clearly to illustrate the wide distribution of a characteristic type of warning coloration. APPENDIX I. 1 . L e p i d o p t e r a R h o p a l o c e r a , by R . S h e l f o r d . E l y m n i a s a r o a , sp. n. d . Dark fuscous brown, with the following cream-white markings \- TJpper side : fore wing, a submarginal series of spots commencing from below the discoidal nervule, the last one double; some indistinct notching at the external angle; the external margin is somewhat irregularly scalloped : hind iving, a sub-discal series of internervular spots and dashes, one of each to each interspace, the last interspace but one carrying a double |
