A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF ADAPTATION. The Kallima butterfly of India is a strikingly coloured insect when its wings are outspread. hut when the wings are folded and the butterfly perches on a twig, it so closely resembles a leaf that the naturalist’s practised eye is often deceived.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, 22 January 1913, Page 36
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47A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF ADAPTATION. The Kallima butterfly of India is a strikingly coloured insect when its wings are outspread. hut when the wings are folded and the butterfly perches on a twig, it so closely resembles a leaf that the naturalist’s practised eye is often deceived. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, 22 January 1913, Page 36
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