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CRICKETS mimicking sand wasps, 98.

CRYPTODONTIA, 299.

Cucullia verbasci, 120.

CURCULIONIDAE, often protected by hard covering, 71; similar colours of two sexes, 114.

Cuviera squamata, 258.

Cyclopeplus batesii, 92.

CYNOPITHECUS, 196.

Cynthia arsinoe, 172.

DANAIDAE, the subjects of mimicry, 85, 86.

Danais erippus, 88; chysippus, 112; sobrina, 179; aglaia, 179; tytia, 180.

DARWIN, Mr., his principle of utility, 47; on cause of colour in flowers, 127, 262; on colours of caterpillars, 118; on sexual colouration, 260; his metaphors liable to misconception, 269; criticism of, in North British Review, 291.

DESERT animals, colours of, 49, 50.

DIADEMA, species of, mimic Danaidae, 86, 87; female with male colouration, 112.

Diadema misippus, 112; D. anomala, 113.

Diaphora mendica, 89.

DICNYODONTIA, 299.

DICROURUS, 253.

Diloba coeruleocephala, 120.

DIMORPHISM, 145; in beetles, 155; in birds, 155; illustrated, 157.

DINOSAURIA, 298.

DIPTERA mimicking wasps and bees, 97.

Doliops curculionides, 94.

DOMESTICATED animals, their essential difference from wild ones, 38-41.

DOTTERELL, 251.

DRUSILLA, mimicked by three genera, 181.

Drusilla bioculata, 180.

DYTISCUS, dimorphism in, 155.

EGYPTIAN architecture, introduced, 225.

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