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Fossil Butterflies: Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. — John Shaqi

Fossil Butterflies: Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

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Fossil Butterflies: Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.

Name: Fossil Butterflies: Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.
Author: Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

Butterflies, Fossil

CONTENTS.

  INTRODUCTION                                                xi

  BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                 1

  DESCRIPTIONS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES

    NEORINOPIS                                                 9

      1. Neorinopis sepulta                                   14

    LETHITES                                                  34

      2. Lethites Reynesii                                    37

    EUGONIA                                                   40

      3. Eugonia atava                                        41

    MYLOTHRITES                                               44

      4. Mylothrites Pluto                                    45

    COLIATES                                                  51

      5. Coliates Proserpina                                  52

    PONTIA                                                    53

      6. Pontia Freyeri                                       54

    THAITES                                                   57

      7. Thaites Ruminiana                                    60

    THANATITES                                                62

      8. Thanatites vetula                                    63

    PAMPHILITES                                               66

      9. Pamphilites abdita                                   68

  COMPARATIVE AGE OF FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES                       70

  PROBABLE FOOD PLANTS OF TERTIARY CATERPILLARS               71

  PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTERFLIES MOST NEARLY ALLIED TO
     FOSSIL SPECIES                                           76

  GENERAL RÉSUMÉ, WITH NOTICE OF UNDETERMINED FORMS           83

  FOSSIL INSECTS ERRONEOUSLY REFERRED TO BUTTERFLIES          88

  EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES AND WOOD CUTS                     97

INTRODUCTORY.

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