RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. 'Apatura Iris…had been engaged in a conflict'. in Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, 1859: 139. CUL-DAR81.160. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1
NOTE: Darwin cited this in a nin Descent 1: 386.
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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The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer 1859 page 139
Mr. John Tyrer, Melville Hospital, Chatham [July, 23] says that his son, a boy under 14 years of age captured two male specimens of Apatura Iris, who like some Emperors of the present time had been engaged in a conflict and one of them has a small bit out of the tip of his wing.
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