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 284
ich is engaged inpulling some treasure-trove into pieces convenient forcarrying. I have noticed a female picata which, aftergetting possession of a gnat, kept beating it with herfront legs as she ate, pulHng it about in differentdirections, and all the time twitching her ant-likeabdomen. This… … Pig. bi^.—Synemosyna formica, an ant-like spider (from Peckham). like an ant than S. picata; it also holds up its secondpair of legs as antennae, and its walk is described asvery different from that of closely allied spiders. Insects which mimic Vertebrate animals We finally reach the most…
Color of animals · Color of insects
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