RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Stainton, Manual of British butterflies and moths. CUL-DAR47.34. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
"Stainton (H. T.). A manual of British Butterflies and Moths. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1857–59. 102." (Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge.)
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Stainton's Manual of British Butterflies & Moths 1857 page 62
Polyommatus Agestis
A singular variety with a white spot on the upper side in the centre of the forewings (which is a most important character in Polyommatus Artaxerxes) was taken near Brighton last July by Mr. Cooke. The under side entirely agreed with the ordinary appearance of agestis
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