From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
23 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (28/3)
Summary:
Sends a moth from Queensland, Australia. The sender says a large number have been caught with proboscises embedded in oranges. CD interested as having a bearing on his Orchis work. Can AGB name the family and any closely allied English genus? The proboscis seems an extraordinary structure [see F. Darwin, "On the structure of the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. n.s. 15 (1875): 384–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project