Inside Out Library · Explore

The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects (1890)

Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 285

An illustration from The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects, 1890, leaf 285
PKOTECTIVE AND AGGRESSIVE MIMICRY 257 ants it resembles, so that the Mimicry is probably pro- tective. Synemosyna formica (see fig. 54) is even more … Fig. b^.— Synemosyna formica, an ant-like spider (from Peckham). like an ant than S, picata ; it also holds up its second pair of legs as antennae, and its walk is described as very different from that of closely allied spidersJ Insects which mimic Vertebrate animals We finally reach the most…

Animals · Insects

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects

More like this