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To Roland Trimen   2 January [1868]

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CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Roland Trimen
Date:  2 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5772

To Roland Trimen   16 January [1868]

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Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Roland Trimen
Date:  16 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5790

From Roland Trimen   13 January 1868

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Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.

Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1868
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5785
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