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MY friend Prof. Meldola has drawn my attention to a communication by Mr. F. E. Beddard in NATURE of November 26 (p. 78), in which the view is expressed that the brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) is rendered protected or unpalatable by the yellow pigment of its wings being due to a substance formed as “a urinary pigment,” and that the coloration is “a consequence of the deposition in the integument of bitter pigments.”
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DISTANT, W. Warning Colours. Nature 45, 175 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045175a0
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