The colours of animals, their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects;
Edward Bagnall Poulton's 1890 popular-science treatise on animal coloration, issued by D. Appleton in New York for naturalists and general readers interested in camouflage and warning colours in insects. Line engravings show caterpillars, pupae and moths disguised against leaves, twigs and bark, drawn with dense hatching and stipple; useful for silhouettes, insect spot-and-stripe patterns and hand-drawn foliage textures.
