PLATES I-XVI AND DESCRIPTIONS 160 ff I-V. ORIENTAL MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. VI-IX. AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. X-XIII. SOUTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. XIV. SCALES OF LEPIDOPTERA. XV. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. XVI. NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. INDEX 183
"The process by which a mimetic analogy is brought about in nature is a problem which involves that of the origin of all species and all adaptations."--H. W. BATES, 1861.
"With mimesis, above all, it is wise, when the law says that a thing is black, first to inquire whether it does not happen to be white."--HENRI FABRE.
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