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Remarks on Libellula Brodiei (Buckmari), a Fossil Insect from 

 the Upper Lias of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire. By Professor 

 Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



As our associate, the Rev. P. B. Brodie, is leaving this district, 

 I have much pleasure in calling the attention of the Members 

 of the Cotteswold Club to the interesting discoveries of fossil 

 insects from the Lias, which he has principally made within the 

 limits of our more immediate operations, namely in the county 

 of Gloucester ; and this I think right to do now with the more 

 immediate object of settling a question of nomenclature, and in 

 order that our 'Proceedings ' may perpetuate his name as attached 

 to one of the most beautiful and perfect specimens he has yet dis- 

 covered, to whom the following remarks will show that it was 

 originally dedicated. In order to render this the more clear, 

 it will be necessary to state that while Mr. Brodie was prosecu- 

 ting his inquiries in the Lower Lias, in a band of which, termed 

 by him the ' Insect Limestone/ he succeeded in exhuming re- 

 mains of almost every class of Insecta, I had the pleasure of 

 finding among others a fine wing of Libellula in a thin band of 

 limestone in the Upper Lias : this discovery was announced to 

 the Geological Society in a short paper " On the occurrence of 

 Remains of Insects in the Upper Lias of the county of Glou- 

 cester;" and in vol. iv. part 1. page 211 of the ( Proceedings ' of 

 the Geological Society will be found the following remarks: — 

 u The remains of insects comprise one species of Libellula, which, 

 from the reticulations of the fine wing, seems to belong to the 

 genus JEshna, and has been named by Mr. Buckman Mshna 

 Brodiei in honour of Mr. Brodie." 



Between this (June 21, 1843) and the publication of the 

 2nd edition of the ( Outlines of the Geology of the neighbour- 

 hood of Cheltenham/ in 1845, 1 had the pleasure of discovering 

 another fine wing, and this and the previous one were first 

 figured in that work, tab. 8. figs. 1 & 2, with the following de- 

 scription : — 



" Fig. 1 . Posterior wing of jEshna Brodiei. 

 " Fig 2. Anterior wing of ditto." 



showing that I had arrived at the conclusion, that these two 

 wings should both be referred to the same species. 



However, later in the same year, Mr. Brodie published his 



