[389] ‘Land and Water,’ 1868, p. 41.
[390] Yarrell, ‘Hist. British Fishes,’ vol. i. 1836, p. 307; on the Cyprinus carpio, p. 331; on the Tinca vulgaris, p. 331; on the Abramis brama, p. 336. See, for the minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus), ‘Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist.’ vol. v. 1832, p. 682.
[391] Leuckart quotes Meinecke (Wagner, ‘Handwörterbuch der Phys.’ B. iv. 1853, s. 775) that with Butterflies the males are three or four times as numerous as the females.
[392] ‘The Naturalist on the Amazons,’ vol. ii. 1863, p. 228, 347.
[393] Four of these cases are given by Mr. Trimen in his ‘Rhopalocera Africæ Australis.’
[394] Quoted by Trimen, ‘Transact. Ent. Soc.’ vol. v. part iv. 1866, p. 330.
[395] ‘Transact. Linn. Soc.’ vol. xxv. p. 37.
[396] ‘Proc. Entomolog. Soc.’ Feb. 17th, 1868.
[397] Quoted by Dr. Wallace in ‘Proc. Ent. Soc.’ 3rd series, vol. v. 1867, p. 487.
[398] Blanchard, ‘Metamorphoses, Mœurs des Insectes,’ 1868, p. 225-226.