RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Description of moths]. CUL-DAR81.106. 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).
[106]
♂ dark brown backed
♀ light brown or yellow
Lasiocampa Quercus
Hypogymma Dispar
2 other males
darker & more
marked than ♀
belong to group
Cycnia mendica
After our moths
Hepialus Humuli
Males white!!
common case. [illeg]
Odonestis Potatoria
Nearly same diffæ as in L. Quercus, but
not so marked
x [illeg]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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