RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lepidoptera. CUL-DAR81.105. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Lepidoptera
In the case in which female Butterfly made beautiful by mimicking, why not male - could not injure it. This shows that colour may arise & be developed in the sex, as structures of various kinds in those insects in which male & female had widely different habits of life.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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