The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].05.15. Copris no trace of instrument. CUL-DAR81.126. 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

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My 15 ♂ Copris no trace of instrument

In ♂ Typhæus, in proper place a brown thickened ridge crosses coxa. Which surface of

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coxa covered with apparently minute scales bristly on edge –but these scales become confluent on brown ridge, & found excessively approximate quite parallel & quite straight lines, covered with equal-distant,

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excessively minute bristles - can only be seen with 1/4 inch glass. I think [instrument] or rudiment of one. That oblique brown bend does not form a ridge, but a distinct slightly rounded prominence. I can see an [instrument] to ♂ Lucanus cervus.

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