[U]"Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. ii. p. 177.
[V]I may here draw attention to the fact that the bats whose wing-bone measurements were given above are those which have so far survived and escaped such elimination as is now in progress.
[W]"Origin of Species," p. 109.
[X]"Darwinism," p. 106.
[Y]Ibid. p. 106.
[Z]Proceedings Liverpool Biological Society, 1889.
[AA]Since this chapter was written, Mr. Poulton has published his interesting and valuable work on "The Colours of Animals," from which I have contrived to insert one or two additional examples.
[AB]Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., September, 1889, p. 209, quoted by Poulton, "Colours of Animals," p. 55.
[AC]Nature, vol. xxxv. p. 77.
[AD]Many other instances might be added. The hornet clear-wing moth (Sphecia apiformis) mimics the hornet or wasp; the narrow-bordered bee-hawk moth (Sesia bombyliformis) mimics a bumble-bee. These insects may be seen in the lepidoptera drawers in the Natural History Museum. But perhaps the most wonderful instance of insect-mimicry is that observed by Mr. W. L. Sclater, and given by Mr. E. B. Poulton, in his "Colours of Animals" (p. 252), where a (probably) homopterous insect mimics a leaf-cutting ant, together with its leafy burden—a membranous expansion in the mimic closely resembling the piece of leaf carried by the particular kind of ant he resembles.