Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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Page 7
... Variety of Causes - A further series of facts which lends indirect support to the adaptive interpretation of green colour concerns the wide variety of methods , both physical and METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT IS ATTAINED IN NATURE 7.
... Variety of Causes - A further series of facts which lends indirect support to the adaptive interpretation of green colour concerns the wide variety of methods , both physical and METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT IS ATTAINED IN NATURE 7.
Page 17
... variety cornelseni is rare ; but in Germany this has replaced the normal form where the species occurs in manufacturing districts , though not elsewhere in unpolluted country . Similarly , the black variety humperti of B. punctinalis ...
... variety cornelseni is rare ; but in Germany this has replaced the normal form where the species occurs in manufacturing districts , though not elsewhere in unpolluted country . Similarly , the black variety humperti of B. punctinalis ...
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... variety of entirely different ways . Certain Geometrid and Drepanid moths - white in colour with blackish , brown , or grey markings - habitually expose themselves with the wings ex- tended and closely applied to the surface of the ...
... variety of entirely different ways . Certain Geometrid and Drepanid moths - white in colour with blackish , brown , or grey markings - habitually expose themselves with the wings ex- tended and closely applied to the surface of the ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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