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Dutch, retention of their colour by the, in South Africa. Duty, sense of. Duvaucel, female Hylobates washing her young. Dyaks, pride of, in mere homicide. Dynastes, large size of males of. Dynastini, stridulation of. Dytiscus, dimorphism of females of; grooved elytra of the female. Eagle, young Cercopithecus rescued from, by the troop. Eagle, white-headed, breeding in immature plumage.
There are, however, other beetles which are not known to fight together, of which the males exceed the females in size; and the meaning of this fact is not known; but in some of these cases, as with the huge Dynastes and Megasoma, we can at least see that there would be no necessity for the males to be smaller than the females, in order to be matured before them, for these beetles are not short-lived, and there would be ample time for the pairing of the sexes.
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