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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. [1859-1871]. 'Apatura Iris…had been engaged in a conflict'. in Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, 1859: 139. CUL-DAR81.160. 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 5.2021. RN2

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The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer 1859 page 139

Mr. John Tyrer, Melville Hospital, Chatham 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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Tyrer, John. 1859. Capture of a singular variety of Apatura Iris. Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer 6 no. 148 (30 July): 138-139. PDF Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 386.

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