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from eggs or caterpillars, I have received only the few following 
cases : — 
Rev. J. Hollins 63 of Exeter reared, during 1868, 
. imagos of 73 species, which consisted ot 
*'h\ Albert Jones of Eltham reared, during 1868, im- 
ages of 9 species, which consisted of 
during 1869 he reared imagos from 4 species, consist- 
, ing of . . . . 
*'*r. Buckler of Emsworth, Hants, during 1869, reared 
. imagos from 74 species, consisting of . . . . 
Dl '. Wallace of Colchester reared from one brood of 
. Bombvx Cynthia 
IJr - Wallace raised, from cocoons ofBombyx Pernyi sent 
n from China, during 1869 
Ur . Wallace raised, during 1868 and 1869, from two 
lots of cocoons of Bombyx yama-mai . . . , . . 
Total 
Males. 
Females. 
153 
137 
159 
126 
114 
112 
180 
169 
52 
48 
224 
123 
52 
46 
934 
761 
So that in these eight lots of cocoons and eggs, males were pro- 
ceed in excess. Taken together the proportion of males is as 
■^2'7 to 100 females. But the numbers are hardly large enough 
4(1 be trustworthy. 
On the whole, from the above various sources of evidence, all 
feinting to the same direction, I infer that with most species of 
bepidopttra, the males in the imago state generally exceed the 
e tt)ales in number, whatever the proportions may be at their first 
emergence from the egg. 
With reference to the other Orders of insects, 1 have been able 
,0 collect very little reliable information. With the stag-beetle 
facanus cervus) “ the males appear to he much more numerous 
‘than the females” but when, as Cornelius remarked during 1867, 
Unusual number of these beetles appeared in one part of Ger- 
? a uy, the females appeared to exceed the nudes as six so one. 
With one of the Elatoricto, the males are said to he much more 
Numerous than the females, and “ two or three are often found 
Suited with one female f* so that here polyandry seems to prevail. 
This naturalist lias been so kind as to send ine some results from 
'finer years, in which the females seemed to preponderate ; but so many 
the figures were estimates, that 1 found it impossible to tabulate them. 
e GUnther’s ‘Record of Zoological Literature,’ 1867, p. 260. On the 
pwess of female Lucanus, ibid. p. 250. On the males of Lucanus in Eng- 
j! Westwood, ‘ Modern Class, of Insects,’ vol. i.lp. 187. On the Siagoninm, 
01cl - p. 172. 
