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 and Company · leaf 142
ponblack fences were darkerthan those upon walls.^ In 1874 a paper by Mrs.M. E. Barber, and commu-nicated by Mr. Darwin tothe Entomological Societyof London, was printed inthe Transactions of thatsociety.2 Mrs. Barber hadexperimented with a com-mon South African Swallow-tailed Butterfly… … Fig. 25.—The pupa of Papilio nireusattached to orange tree; naturalsize. 116 THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS the food-plant, Orange, they were of a similar colour(see fig. 25); when fixed to dead branches coveredwith withered, pale yellowish-green leaves, they re-sembled the latter (see fig. 26). One of the…
Color of animals · Color of insects
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