RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Walsh, The hellgrammite fly (Corydalis cornutus, Linn.). CUL-DAR81.149. 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: 342.


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The American Entomologist Vol I. 1868 p 62.

Mr Walsh states that one use of the great jaws of the ♂ Corydalis cornutus (Neuroptera?) & of ♂ Lucanus elaphus is to seize the ♀

[Benjamin D. Walsh. 1868. The hellgrammite fly (Corydalis cornutus, Linn.). American Entomologist 1, no. 4 (Dec.): 61-62.]


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