RECORD: Darwin, C. R. Abstract of A. R. Wallace, Malay archipelago 2: 276, 314. CUL-DAR81.135. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2011. Corrections by Christine Chua 2.2022. RN2
NOTE: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Co. http://wallace-online.org/content/search-results?pagesize=50&searchtitle=Malay+archipelago&pageno=1&datebefore=&publisher=&searchid=&allfields=&description=&name=Wallace+Alfred+Russel&freetext=&place=&periodical=&dateafter=&documenttype=Book&sort=identifier
Reproduced with the 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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Insects
Wallace Travels.
Vol. 2. p. 276 — Male Beetles fighting for ♀
— 314 Diptera wonderful Horns, sexual character. —
p. 276 2 ♂ Brenthidae (Leptorhynchus angustatus The ♂s larger than ♀ & have the rostrum dilated at the end — (Twice saw 2 males fighting,) "the rostrum bent quite in an attitude of defiance & looking most ridiculous. (Another time 2 were fighting for a ♀ who stood close by busy at her boring. They pushed at each other with their rostra, & clawed & thimped apparently in the greatest rage. ... The smallest one, however, soon ran away, acknowledging himself vanquished."
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