RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Scudder, Notes on the Stridulation of some New England Orthoptera. CUL-DAR81.139. 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).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 353.
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"Notes on the Stridulation of some New England Orthoptera"
Proc. Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist. Vol XI April 1868 by Dr. Scudder - He could make the insects by rubbing on file with quill answer him. This must be rivalry as ♀s do not stridulate
The Acrydii which stridulate by their femora make a less shrill note than other families.
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