RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Westwood, An introduction to the modern classification of insects. CUL-DAR85.B49. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1

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B49

Westwood vol. 2

317 Zygaenae red underwings

319 sexual differences in male

329 Rhopalocera

X 333 Butter Butterflies live all sun [illeg] more gaily coloured like than the noctural butter moths.

335 Upper surface differs in the males in sp. of Butterflies

374 Aegeria exitiosa . N. Amer.
(Zygaenidae) [2 words illeg] — sexes very different Urania

376 Ghost Moth — [illeg]  

380 Saturnia with ocelli — males fly by day—

384 Power of smell of Bombycidae   (O nelem[?])

386 Tiger moth belongs to nocturnal (but fly by day)

X 390 Nocturnal yet brilliant

X 392 in same group the nocturnal dusky — diurnal bright.

The sexes differ but seldom in moths

— I conclude in colour.

on differ in color between either sp

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Reference:

Westwood, John Obadiah. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects. 2 vols. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. [signed] CUL-DAR.LIB.677 vol. 2 PDF


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