"The moth is rightly named Ophideres Fullonica." Gives its range, family, allied European and British species, etc.
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"The moth is rightly named Ophideres Fullonica." Gives its range, family, allied European and British species, etc.
Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
Supplies names of moths and references.
Describes his breeding experiments with butterflies to test effects of reduced light.
Several observations on protective coloration and sexual selection.
Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.
Resemblance of ocelli, in a moth and the argus pheasant.
Mimicry.
Pugnacity of stickleback.
Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.
Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.