Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
By the kind communication of my friend, the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., I have been able to study two very striking wing-fragments from the Coal-measures of Great Britain, which are interesting, not only from the excessive rarity of such remains in this country, but also from their relationship to the two or three already known.
page 295 note 1 GEOL. MAG. 1879, p. 97, PI. IV.
page 298 note 1 Previous to the receipt of this paper by the Editor, Mr. It. Etheridge, jun., had occasion to examine Mr. Swinton's figured specimen, contained in the British Museum Collection. Mr. Etheridge is convinced that not the slightest trace of any organ, as figured by Mr. Swinton (GEOL. MAO. Dec. II. 1874, Vol. I. Plate XIV. Fig. 3, "file"), exists on the specimen in question. The supposed "stridulating organ " is in fact only a fracture of the surfa e of the nodule, in which the wing is preserved. This is shown both on the fossil and its counterpart.–EDIT. GEOL. MAG.Pre ious to the receipt of this paper by the Editor, Mr. It. Etheridge, jun., had occasion to examine Mr. Swinton's figured specimen, contained in the British Museum Collection. Mr. Etheridge is convinced that not the slightest trace of any organ, as figured by Mr. Swinton (GEOL. MAO. Dec. II. 1874, Vol. I. Plate XIV. Fig. 3, "file"), exists on the specimen in question. The supposed "stridulating organ " is in fact only a fracture of the surface of the nodule, in which the wing is preserved. This is shown both on the fossil and its counterpart.–EDIT. GEOL. MAG.