RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Westwood, Modern classification of insects. CUL-DAR85.B110. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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).
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Westwood modern Class. of Insects vol I 172.
Siagonium (our Staphylinidæ) The males are furnished with horns. "The females are far more numerous than the opposite sex."
do p. 187 Lucanus cervus "the males appear to be much more numerous than the females"
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