But perhaps the most wonderful instance of insect-mimicry is that observed by Mr. W.
Protective resemblance and mimicry have been considered at some length because, on the hypothesis of natural selection, they admirably illustrate the results which may be reached through long-continued elimination by enemies.
If mimicry in form and colour is due to natural selection, why not mimicry in habits and activities?
Such resemblance is termed mimicry, concerning which it must be remembered that the mimicry is unconscious, and is reached by the elimination of those forms which do not possess this resemblance.
And lastly, there is the true mimicry of quite distinct families of butterflies, not themselves inedible, but sheltering themselves under the guise and sharing the bad reputation of the mimicked forms.
Another case of imperfect but no doubt effectualmimicry is given by Mr. W.
The very essence of the principle of mimicry is that misleading associations are suggested.
This mimicry in the methods of the apperception of beauty and in the forming of judgments of taste need not result in a spurious, or at any rate not a hypocritical or affected, predilection.
The mimicry could not indeed be very offensive, for the imitation was so utterly unlike the reality, that Lady Cecilia and Helen with difficulty repressed their smiles.
Acting or the art of mimicry presents the same subject-matter, no longer under the conditions of fixed rhythm but as an ideal reproduction of reality.
They flash, and are quenched, and flash again, light darting to light along the level surface, while the sailing planets and the stars look down complacent at this mimicry of heaven.
This suggests that the perfect imitation in shape, as well as in movement, seen in many species was started in forms of an appropriate size and colour by the mimicry of movement alone.
In mimicrywe investigate the effect of environment in its simplest form: we trace the effects of the pattern of a single species upon that of another far removed from it in the scale of classification.
The most interesting copy of Bates's classical memoir on Mimicry ("Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley".
Fritz Muller's contributions to the problem of Mimicry were all made in S.
The hypothesis of Mullerian mimicry was at first strongly opposed.
They will form the subject of a large part of the following section, where the models of Batesian (Pseudaposematic) mimicry are considered as well as the Mullerian (Synaposematic) combinations of Warning Colours.
It is probably incorrect to assume with Haase that mimicry always arose in the female and was later acquired by the male.
Some of them are eager investigators in the fascinating field of geographical distribution, so essential for the study of Mimicry itself.
Mimicry in the male would be no disadvantage but an advantage, and when it appears would be and is taken advantage of by selection.
A review of Bates's theory of Mimicry was contributed by Darwin to the "Natural History Review" (New Ser.
In most of the personages who are thus slain in mimicry it is impossible not to recognise representatives of the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation, as he is supposed to manifest himself in spring.
Not less graphic, it may be said, is the mimicry of his apparent revolution by swinging a burning tar-barrel round a pole.
Foote's mimicry was exquisitely ludicrous, but it was all caricature.
Now of these, there is no question but that the love of Mimicry is natural and right, and the love of Discipline is natural and right.
No towers of Babel envious of the skies; no pyramids in mimicry of the mountains of the earth; no streets that are a weariness to traverse, nor temples that make pigmies of the worshippers.
Garrick's mimicry of the mighty Johnson was excellent.
Almost all these cases of mimicry are from the tropics, where the forms of life are more abundant, and where insect development especially is of unchecked luxuriance; but there are also one or two instances in temperate regions.
Among the Mammalia the only case which may be true mimicry is that of the insectivorous genus Cladobates, found in the Malay countries, several species of which very closely resemble squirrels.
These are generally very abundant, slow, and weak fliers, and are more or less the objects of mimicry by other groups, which thus gain an advantage in a freedom from persecution similar to that enjoyed by those they resemble.
The most obvious is, that we have gradations of mimicry and of protective resemblance--a fact which is strongly suggestive of a natural process having been at work.
The following list exhibits the most important and best marked cases of mimicry which occur among the Papilionidæ of the Malayan region and India:-- Mimickers.
These laws will be found to hold good, in all the cases of true mimicry among various classes of animals to which we have now to call the attention of our readers.
The thing, I now began to see, was so safe and easy, provided that his mimicry was good enough, and that his nerve held.
He had considerable aptitude for mimicry and acting--probably some experience too.
Mannish is a depreciatory word referring to the mimicry or parade of some superficial qualities of manhood; as, a mannish boy or woman.
Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech.
Viewed in this aspect, his repudiation of mimicry may perhaps also seem somewhat harsh and one-sided.
Moreover, the untenableness of the mimicry hypothesis must have revealed itself very clearly to him in the course of his investigations regarding the coloring of butterflies.
There was no mimicry or jest which even its victims could not readily forgive.
Let us briefly see, now, what conditions man may fairly impose upon Nature--what lengths he may legitimately go in the way of mimicry of natural effects or of conventionalism.
A man of infinite wit and humour, and possessed of extraordinary talent as a mimic, Foote made mimicry the principal instrument of his success on the stage.
To a Greek and a Spartan the very mimicry of allegiance to the foreigner is hard.
We frequently speak rapturously of the mimicry of Nature.
But the same Providence which gave these marvelous powers of mimicry also gave the other parties the eyes to see and apparent judgment to penetrate the mask and secure the needed meal.
A Darwinian might find evidence of the pedigree of our species in the inherent taste formimicry which we share, at all events, with the anthropoid apes.
This instinct of mimicry I take to be the humble beginning from which dramatic art has sprung, and it appears in the individual at a very early stage.
And she abused him roundly in that absurd mimicry of the dialect of the slums which was habitual with her.
Her eyes were good, and she had the habit of staring at her friends, sometimes, in a manner which seemed to indicate a fortuitous mimicry of childlike and incredulous questioning.
When mounted on thy horse thou playest the mimicry of war, who is quicker smoothly to wheel in flight, who to hurl the spear, or more skilled to sweep round in swift return?
The only instance of humour, national or individual, which I have witnessed since my abode in this country, was a sham parade got up in mimicry of the real one here described.
Some of these beings are capable of a marvelous power of mimicry that makes them identify themselves with inanimate objects, or in a few moments run through every gamut of color.
With the amazing mimicry of their species, they had changed themselves to appear like minerals.
With this mimicry it was accustomed to escape its enemies and could better detect its prey.
