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photographic fac-similes of two ch-awiugs, 

 of " Great-upou-Little," at West Hoathly, 

 and Ai'clingly Chiirch, taken and presented 

 by Mr Peulej-, for the Society's album on 

 that occasion. 



Nov. A paper was read by Mr Wonfor on certain 

 Butterfly scales characteristic of sex, iu which 

 he stated that while endeavouring in 1864 to 

 obtain the battledore scales from the common 

 bh;es, and the tasseled scales from the whites, 

 in the position described in I\Iicroscopic Ma- 

 nuals, namely, the under surface of the wings, 

 he had made three discoveries : first, that the 

 said scales were always on the upper surface ; 

 secondly, in rows under the ordinary scales, 

 and at the intervals ; and thirdly, that these 

 particular scales were confined to the males. 

 Hence that they were characteristic marks of 

 sex, as far as he had been able to carry his . 

 observations, through the three families of 

 Polyommatiis, Pieris, and Hipparchia. In 

 examining the blues, he had found the battle- 

 dores differed in size, shape, length of blade 

 or handle, according to the x)articular species, 

 while among the Pieridfe the difierences were 

 well and distinctly seen ; the same applied 

 also to the Hipparchia familj-. A^Tiether they 

 served any pui-pose in the economy of the 

 insect he could not say, their analogues seemed 

 to be iu the beard of man, the mane of the 

 lion, and the j)lumage of some birds. Dii'ec- 

 tions were given how to obtain the scales, 

 and the paper was illustrated by drawings, 

 the microscope, and the insects themselves, 

 from which the scales were taken. (This 



