Identifier: timehrijournalo361919roya (find matches)
Title: Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (Georgetown, Guyana
Subjects: Agriculture Anthropology Zoology
Publisher: (S.l.) : Argosy Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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flashy as we will see later. In practising camouflage man is therefore but applying mechanically,and in a more advanced manner, a character which is naturally possessedby a large number of animals and which he himself still possesses, atleast in some races, in the most primitive form—deceptive coloration,as for instance Aboriginal Indians, In the insect world we find the art of camouflage very highlydeveloped, probably higher than in any other group of animals,except perhaps man himself, and they therefore form a particularly inter-esting group to study in this connection. A conspicuous character of every kind of insect is its colour-pattern,and while some of these, the ones which we notice most, are flashy andconspicuous there are others which are dull, obscure, and monochrome.A careful examination will, however, reveal that even in the smallsombre-coloured insects there is a remarkable uniformity, and oftenamazing intricacy, of this colour-pattern. Sooner or later, therefore, the
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