RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Westwood, An introduction to the modern classification of insects, etc. CUL-DAR47.56. 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'.


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Secondary Sexual Character Variable

Westwood Class. Vol. I. p. 172

A Staphylide [Staphylinidæ] in which males have horns on head & thorax — very variable in structure & dimorphic.

[Westwood, John Obadiah, 1839. >An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. London.]


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