From:
Edward Westey Janson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: 99–100
Summary:
Sends specimens selected by H. W. Bates.
Among the Lamellicornes the family Dynastidae have most instances of presence of stridulating organs; Frederick Smith says that in Hymenoptera female Mutilla has stridulating faculty in high degree.
[Itemised bill for Coleoptera specimens enclosed.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
