RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1867]. Abstract of A. R. Wallace, Transactions of the Entomological Society, 4: 301, 1867. CUL-DAR81.104. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe 2011. Corrections by Christine Chua 2.2022. RN2
NOTE: Wallace, A. R. 1867. On the Pieridæ of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part III): 301-416, pls. 1-4. http://wallace-online.org/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=S127
104v is transcribed from a photograph taken by van Wyhe, 8.2011.
Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Transact. Ent. Soc. Vol. IV Part 3, p. 301. Wallace
The Pieridae throughout the world are generally characterized by white & yellow colours, like the cabbage, orange tip, & brimstone butterflies, but in the tropics other forms appear by their side decorated with a variety of colours, & spacing to some extent the forms & makings of the more brilliant families of butterflies. It is to be observed, however, that in most cases the general colour of the insect is white, yellow or black, & even in those exceptional cases in which the wings are entirely red or bluish-grey, the female of the same
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"species, or of one closely allied to it, present us with the usual simple colours." — Various colour characteristics of other families are entirely absent in this group. —
(Now are there cases in which both sexes of Pieridae are coloured "red or bluish grey"?)
Mem from the expression "of one closely allied to it" I infer that both sexes are brightly & abnormally coloured in some species
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