Die Farbenevolution bei den Pieriden

Abstract

THE fact is becoming more and more widely recognised that the colours of animals, and especially of insects, afford excellent material for the investigation of dark places in the theory of evolution. As was long ago pointed out by Bates, and reiterated with increased emphasis by Wallace, the history of the modification of species is displayed to view on the wings of butterflies in a manner that is peculiarly legible and strikingly complete. There is, therefore, every justification for those students of evolution who, like Weismann, Eimer, Meldola, Poulton, Bateson, and several others, have devoted much attention to the colour patterns of lepidopterous insects, and have endeavoured with more or less success to use the facts made available by such detailed examination in the elucidation of the laws which govern the origin and development of species.

Die Farbenevolution bei den Pieriden.

Von M. C. Piepers. “Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereenignig; 2. Deel v.” Pp. 70–289. (Leiden, 1898.)