Insect Variety: its Propagation and Distribution Treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music in all Grasshoppers, Cicadœ, and Moths; Beetles, Leaf-Insects, Bees, and Butterflies; Bugs, Flies, and Ephemerœ; and Exhibiting the Bearing of the Science of Entomology on Geology

Abstract

WHEN Mr. Darwin published his “Descent of Man” in 1871 non-entomological readers were first made acquainted with a host of interesting facts connected with the various sounds produced by insects, the different colours in the two sexes, with their corresponding senses, emotions, and habits, so far as these bore upon the question of sexual selection. As in so many other cases Mr. Darwin's volume was the means of attracting the attention of working entomologists to this interesting field of observation, which has since been assiduously worked by Dr. Fritz Müller in Brazil, while in this country Mr. Swinton has for many years devoted himself to its study, both by personal observation and by collecting together the scattered observations spread over the entire literature of entomology, the result of his labours being embodied in the present volume.

Insect Variety: its Propagation and Distribution. Treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music in all Grasshoppers, Cicadœ, and Moths; Beetles, Leaf-Insects, Bees, and Butterflies; Bugs, Flies, and Ephemerœ; and Exhibiting the Bearing of the Science of Entomology on Geology.

By A. H. Swinton, Member of the Entomological Society of London. (London, Paris, and New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co. No date.)