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Lepldopterous. He also informs me that tlie specimen from 

 the Stonesfield Slate, lately figured and described by 

 Mr. Butler as the wing of a butterfly, is Homopterous, and 

 allied to Cicada, possibly belonging to the same genus as 

 some large and well defined Cicadaceous Pupoe in my cabinet, 

 from the Insect beds of the Lower Lias ; or at any rate 

 closely connected. Mr. Scudder examined the original 

 specimen in Mr. Charlesworth's possession, (May, 1873,) 

 and also the reverse of the same which is still more anti- 

 Lepidopterous, in the Museum in Jermyn Street, which 

 Mr. Butler, it seems, has not seen, and hence decided that it 

 certainly was not Lepldopterous. In the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society for November, 1854, pi. 18, p. 390, 

 Mr. "Westwood in illustration of a paper of mine on the 

 Dorsetshire Purbecks, figures a small fragment of a wing, 

 ■which he suggests may possibly be one of the Lepidoptera 

 from this formation, but this specimen cannot be found, and 

 if belonging to this order it is the only one in a fossil state 

 in this country. Hence it appears that at present no certain 

 indication of any fossil remains of Lepidoptera have been 

 discovered in British strata, and the greater number, it not 

 all, are confined to foreign Tertiaries where they have been 

 long known. 



These and all other specimens of this order will be shortly 

 figured and described by Mr. Scudder. 



In the Geological Magazine for December, 1872, Mr. 

 Scudder, the eminent American Entomologist, figures and 

 describes a new fossU buttei-fly, (Latyi'ites Beynesii,) from 

 Tertiary Eocene deposits at Aix, in Provence. * ' Though, 



* The qaarries at Aix so long famous for their fossUa, are now unfortunately 

 closed, so that at present no more fossil insects can be procured. The largest 

 number and best preserved specimens of Lepidoptera have been obtained from 

 this locality. 



A considerable number of Insects have been recently discovered in certain 

 freshwater Marls, supposed to be of Miocene age, in the Booky mountains in 

 America, but have not yet been described. 



