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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II.—Natural Science 1886

1886

Remembering however the remarks of Darwin and Wallace on the protective nature of the ocelli of birds borne out by the testimony of all sportsmen and observed by me in the case of the common wild peacock I am inclined to think that the ocelli are a direct protection to the insect during the rains. [...] Having arrived at the foot of the tree the ants deposited the caterpillar in an open space just within the mouth of the nest whereupon the latter immediately attached itself to the bark and commenced its transformtions. [...] The subcostal veins of these two species are diferently arranged but they agree in the very broad cell of the forewing in the white apical stripe common to both sexes in the first ocellus of the hindwing below being withdrawn from the series and as regards the prohensores in the curiously palmate branches of the uncus. [...] A glandular patch of peculiar black scales on the hiudwing of the male in the space between the costal and subcostal veins extending into the cell and just within the fork of the 1st and 2nd subcostals. [...] The cell of the forewing is covered with long shining hair ; the male mark on the forewing is more distinct the male lacks the white spots diverging to the costa from the macular band ; in the female these are three in number and rather blurred.
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Pages
141
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
V.—a List of Butterflies Taken in Kumaon.—By William Doherthy Cincinnati U.S.A. Communicated by the Natural History Secretary
103-140 unknown view
VI.—On a Second Species of Uredine Offecting Abies Smithiana Forbes by Surgeon A. Barclay M.B. Bengal Medical Service
140-143 unknown view
VII.—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. No. 6.—Addenda and Index. By E.T. Atkinson B.A. President of the Society
143-223 unknown view
VIII.—On a New Species of Uredine Parasitic on Cedrus Deodara Loudon. By Surgeon A. Barclay M.B. Bengal Medical Service
223-226 unknown view
IX.—On Three New Himalayan Primulas. By G. King M.B. Ll.D. F.L.S.
227-228 unknown view
X.—On the Life-History of Certain Calcutta Species of Satyrinæ with Special Reference to the Seasonal Dimorphism Alleged to Occur in Them.—By Lionel De Niceville F.E.S.
229-238 unknown view
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i-ii unknown view

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