RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Kirby & Spence, Introduction to Entomology, vol. 3. CUL-DAR85.B133. 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).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 272, n11: "Kirby and Spence, 'Introduction to Entomology,' vol. iii. 1826, p. 342."
[B133]
a) Kirby & S. Vol. 3. p. 342 "The law is that the male shall seek the female." It is not a little remarkable that throughout animal K. as fast as known the males seek the female, we know this in higher animals, & with birds though they do not in some cases actually seek them, they attract them. With insects "it is the law &c" we see this in many females in all classes being apterous or even unable to walk, & in males being furnished with far more highly developed sense-organs.
In Spiders Mr Blackwall says males more erratic. In Crust. males locomotive, whilst females fixed & parasitic - in other case furnished more abundantly with swelling thread, & Mr C. S. Bate tells me more erratic
Kirby vol. 3. p. 345 usual male after copulation to die but some exceptions (Douglas?)
346 most females lay all eggs at once
Silk-moth & Bees & Ant great exceptions
[in margin:] (See [illeg] )
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