RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1874]. Abstract of H. W. Bates, Longicorn Coleoptera of tropical America and Günther, Ceratophrys and Megalophrys. CUL-DAR89.56. 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 11.2021. RN2
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-DAR87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
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Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist 1873
January. p. 22 & 23 Longicorns mocking wasps & Bees
[Bates, Henry Walter. 1874. On the longicorn Coleoptera of New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 14: 16-24; 118-131. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 952] PDF ]
(June p. 419 error about Horned Frog).
[Günther, Albert. 1873. Contribution to our knowledge of Ceratophrys and Megalophrys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 417-419. CUL-DAR89.33-34. Image
"[…] Therefore there can be no further doubt that there exist in reality two species of Megalophrys with a somewhat singular distribution; for whilst M. nasuta appears to be rather common in Borneo, the Malayan peninsula, and Sumatra, M. montana is limited to Java and Ceylon.
I regret to have fallen into this error, the more so as Mr. Darwin, whose attention I had directed to Megalophrys, has referred to these frogs in his 'Descent of Man,' 1871, ii. p. 26, and figured the heads of the two species as those of the male and female of the same animal."]
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