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IN his last letter Mr. Poulton observes that I am one of “four recent writers” who have made use of the collections in the Natural History Museum and the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, for the purpose of illu-trating the phenomena of mimicry between Volucella and Bombex. This is the case, but I should like to add that the species which I have depicted are not V. bombylans and B. muscorum (the question-able resemblance of ahich in nature, and the erroneous labelling of which in the “show cases,” constitute the grounds of Mr. Bateson's somewhat “aggres-ive” criticism on other “recent Writers”), but V. bombylans and B. lapidarius, where the fact of resemblance can admit of no doubt (“Darwin and After Darerin,” p. 329). Indred, Mr. Bateson fully recognizes the close similarity in appearance between these two species; and as I refrained from giving the hypothetical explanation of it to which he objects, I avoided all the issues which have since been raised in the NATURE correspondence.
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ROMANES, G. Aggressive Mimicry. Nature 47, 200 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047200b0
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