128 MR. J. WATSON ON THE PLUMULES OR 



The Allesley sandstone, from which it is believed the 

 beautiful specimens of fossil wood now in the Warwick 

 Museum came from, so far as it has come under my obser- 

 vatiouj will have to be classed as of the same age as the 

 Whitehaven, Astley, and Moira sandstones, and which in 

 Germany would be called Lower Rothliegende. As I have 

 previously stated, some of the sandstones in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bewdley, as Dr. Geinitz supposed, will most likely 

 have also to be added. With the assistance of Mr. E. 

 Baugh, I have obtained evidence of the occurrence of the 

 Spirorbis-limestone at Prizeley and Gibhouse, near Cleo- 

 bury Mortimer ; but as yet I have not been able to prove 

 that Mr. Baugh^s plant-beds^ found in the cutting at Cun- 

 dalls, near Bewdley, are Carboniferous strata lying above 

 this limestone^ although it is probable such may be the 

 case. All the geologists in the district about Bewdley 

 will render good service to science by satisfactorily deter- 

 mining this point. 



VI. On the Plumules or Battledore Scales of Lycaenidge. 

 By John Watson^ Esq. 



[Eead before the Microscopical Section, January i6th, 1865.] 



Having on a former occasion drawn your attention to the 

 plumules of some genera of Pieridse with the intention of 

 showing that they serve for the identification of species in 

 that family of the Lepidoptera, I now^ with the same aim, 

 request your attention to the microscopic examination of 

 the (so-called) Battledore Scales of some genera of the 

 Lycsenidse, which exhibit similar generic and specific alli- 

 ances and difPerences, and answer the same purpose of 

 identification. 



The name '' Battledore " is not appropriate. Looking 



