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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
On ocelli.
Sexual differences and proportion of sexes in butterflies.
Coleoptera.
[See Descent 1: 310; 2: 132.]
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
Sends prospectus of forthcoming work by his brother [Henry Trimen] and W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [Flora of Middlesex (1869)]. Hopes CD will subscribe.
Proportion of sexes in butterflies; discussion of subject at meeting of Entomological Society, London.
Attraction of males by female Lasiocampa quercus. [see Descent 1: 311–12.]
On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.
Extract from Émile Blanchard’s Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insectes [1868], on attraction of males by female Lepidoptera, and possible explanation.
Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.
Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.
