RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Walsh, Proc. Entomolog. Soc. of Philadelphia. CUL-DAR81.159. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN3

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).


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p. 217 Sexual secondary organs leading to formation of species & Bates has speculated to same effect under Chrysomela

Perhaps in introductory remarks.

222 Dimorphism male Coleoptera

223 males in excess Neuroptera & & in Papilio

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239 Gomphus variation in male abdominal appendage}

239 Females more numerous ask Walsh very

p 223 excess of numbers greater related to sexual selection

Neuroptera

{make reference to excess of sexes in Gomphus

(Walsh. 336 8vo Pamph.)

[159v]

(416 Walsh) sexual D in Tenthridae & Icteridae Hymenopt

(335 do) p. 228 variability in Horns of Coleoptera males.

& (336) p. 222.

[right margin:] Neuroptera

(330 W.) p 380 Ephemera & allied generasexes differ slightly

p 381 colouring matter of Libellula

387 Agrion ♀ paler

393 Gomphus nothing

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1863. Observations on certain North American Neuroptera, by H. Hagen, M.D., of Koenigsberg, Prussia; translated from the original French MS., and published by permission of the author, with notes and descriptions of about twenty new species of North American Pseudoneuroptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 167-272. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 336] PDF

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864-1866. On the insects, coleopterous, hymenopterous and dipterous inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 543-641; (1866) 6: 223-288. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 338, 416] PDF

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864. On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists. [Agassiz] Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 207-249. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 335] PDF

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1862. List of the Pseudoneuroptera of Illinois contained in the cabinet of the writer, with descriptions of over forty new species, and notes on their structural affinities. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 14, nos. 7-9: 361-402. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 330] PDF


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