[HELICONIUS] Fwd: HELICONIUS post from chris.jiggins at ed.ac.uk

Jim Mallet j.mallet at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Mar 16 17:42:11 GMT 2006


The Heliconius known as "Dennis the Menace" was named after the American 
cartoon character, not the British one. See this email from Chris Jiggins:

>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:16:30 +0000
>From: chris.jiggins at ed.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Origin of "Dennis" name & first ever Heliconius 
>crosses

>Note however that this (I think) is the american Dennis the Menace, not 
>the rather more menacing british Dennis the Menace from the Beano comic 
>(see below)
>
>Not very menacing american Dennis:
>
>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/hel/Dennis_The_Menace.gif
>
>More menacing british Dennis the Menace and his first encounter with his 
>dog Gnasher:
>
>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/hel/dennisgnasher1968.jpg
>
>On 16 Mar 2006, at 16:49, Jim Mallet wrote:
>
>>An question from a year ago about colour patterns.  Last information item 
>>for now.
>>
>>A quick question with a long answer!:
>>etc. etc....





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