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 330
302 THE COLOUKS OF ANIMALS last the female, either won by his beauty or worn out by his persistence, accepts his addresses.' In the male of Ilabroces- turn splendens the abdomen is of a magnificent pur- plish red, and he assumes an atti- tude which displays this beauty very completely (see fig.… … Fig. Astia vittata, var. niger; position of black variety of male approaching female (from other, although the Peckham). tufts only occur in the fully developed niger form. The attitudes and movements of courtship are entirely different in the
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