Author Description

Contributors. List of Participants. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction, R.I. Vane-Wright, P.R. Ackery, and P.J. DeVries. Systematics: Systematic and Faunistic Studies on Butterflies, P.R. Ackery. Populations and Communities: The Structure and Dynamics of Butterfly Populations, P.R. Ehrlich. The Biology of Butterfly Communities, L.E. Gilbert. The Effects of Marketing and Handling on Recapture Frequencies of Butterflies, A.C. Morton. Synoptic Studies on Butterfly Abundance, E. Pollard. The Food of Butterflies: Egg-laying in Butterflies, F.S. Chew, and R.K. Robbins. Butterfly-Hostplant Relationships: Host Quality, Adult Choice and Larval Success, M.C. Singer. Habitat Versus Foodplant Selection, S.P. Courtney. Parsonsieae; Ancestral Larval Foodplants of the Danainae and Ithomiinae, J A. Edgar. Predation, Parasitization and Defence: The Natural Enemies of Butterflies, J.P. Dempster. Host Specificity of Ectoparasitic Midges on Butterflies, R.P. Lane. Chemical Defence in Butterflies, L.P. Brower. A New Look at Lepidoptera Toxins, N.Marsh, M. Rothschild, and F. Evans. Mimicry: the Palatability Spectrum and its Consequences, J.R.G. Turner. How is Automimicry Maintained?, D.O. Gibson. Genetic Variation and Speciation: The Ecological Genetics of Quantitative Characters of Maniola jurtina and other Butterflies, P.M. Brakefield. Enzyme Variation Within the Danainae, I.J. Kitching. Mimicry, Migration and Speciation in Acraea encedon and A. encedana, I.J. Gordon. Amplified Species Diversity: a Case Study of an Australian Lycaenid Butterfly and its Attendant Ants, N.E. Pierce. Sex and Communication: Visual Communication and Sexual Selection among Butterflies, R.E. Silberglied. Mate Selection in Butterflies: Competition, Coyness, Choice and Chauvinism, D.A.S. Smith. Absence of Differential Mate Selection in the north American Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus, A.P. Platt, S.J. Harrison, and T.F. Williams. The Role of Pseudosexual Selection in the Evolution of Butterfly Colou