RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Otto] Staudinger - My list proves nothing, only his Hunter takes most males. CUL-DAR81.80. 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: 311-12.


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O. Staudinger - My list proves nothing, only his Hunter takes most males, because ♀ Rhopalocera fly less & males come out first, & when they look faded, Hunters seize hunting - I think when bred sexes = or ♀ in excess, but between that this is done the ♀ perishing more than ♂ in cocoon state.

p. 5 It is certain that in certain years certain sexes prevail - see to this

p. 7. Ocnogyna corsica will fertilise 3 ♀ sexes - after females.


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