Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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Page 326
... covered walls where the larva feeds , and where its cream fore wings , variegated with slaty - grey and with irregular black lines , reproduce the patterns of greyish lichen , with its irregular patchwork of creamy high - lights and ...
... covered walls where the larva feeds , and where its cream fore wings , variegated with slaty - grey and with irregular black lines , reproduce the patterns of greyish lichen , with its irregular patchwork of creamy high - lights and ...
Page 359
... covered over with a hillock of moss perhaps 50 to 100 times as big as itself . Only the tips of its front legs and the ends of its pointed jaws projected from under the edge of the heap . On other occasions it covered itself with lichen ...
... covered over with a hillock of moss perhaps 50 to 100 times as big as itself . Only the tips of its front legs and the ends of its pointed jaws projected from under the edge of the heap . On other occasions it covered itself with lichen ...
Page 379
... covered ( at rest ) by the tegmen , it is strongly pigmented with the pink coloration of the remainder of the membrane ; and a patch of the same colour is worn upon the thorax . A similar arrangement is found in Tropidoderus rhombus ...
... covered ( at rest ) by the tegmen , it is strongly pigmented with the pink coloration of the remainder of the membrane ; and a patch of the same colour is worn upon the thorax . A similar arrangement is found in Tropidoderus rhombus ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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