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.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard
Butterflies, Fossil
[531]. “14. Papilionum minorum imagines et impressiones, in
ejusdem generis saxo suillo fœtido. Ex eodem loco. Hæ itidem
figura sua a papilionibus illis differre haud videntur, quarum
superius Num. 9. meminimus.”
I find no later reference to these supposed Lepidoptera.
1742. SENDELIUS. Historia succinorum. Fol. Lipsiæ.
Devotes a chapter (_De Erucis_, pp. 169-171) to supposed
remains of caterpillars and chrysalides in amber. Several
forms are figured (pl. 5, figs. 25-28; pl. 6, figs. 1-4), of
which it is not impossible that pl. 6, fig. 1, may represent
a Papilionid larva; and pl. 6, fig. 4, the chrysalis of a
Nymphalid; but the illustrations are wholly insufficient to
assert anything of them with confidence.
1828. MARCEL DE SERRES. Note sur les Arachnides et les Insectes fossiles
et spécialement sur ceux des terrains d’eau douce. Ann. Sc. Nat., XV,
98-108.
This is an extract only from the next citation.
1829. MARCEL DE SERRES. Géognosie des terrains tertiaires ou Tableau des
principaux animaux invertébrês des terrains marins tertiaires du midi de
la France. 16mo. Montpellier et Paris.
Contains a “Tableau des Arachnides et des Insectes fossiles
du bassin tertiaire d’Aix (Bouches-du-Rhône),” printed in the
preceding citation, in which (p. 230; p. 107 of preceding)
occurs the genus “Papilio,” with the remark: “Nous citons ici,
sous la foi d’autrui, un Lépidoptère diurne de la division des
_Satyrus_,” doubtless referring to _Neorinopis sepulta_.
Speaking of the authors who have treated of the fossils of
Œningen, he says: (p. 235) “Ces divers naturalistes y ont
signalé des Scarabées, des Lucanus (p. 236) fort rapprochés du
Lucanus cervus, des Papillons,” etc.
In a “Tableau général des Arachnides et des Insectes fossiles”
he gives on p. 257, the following:
================================================================
Genres qui se trouvent dans les terrains anormaux.
/-----------------------/\---------------------\
Tertiaires. Secondaires.
/--------------/\-----------------\ /--/\---\
| | antérieurs à la |
| | retraite des mers |supérieurs
| | dans les couches de |jurassiques.
|postérieurs|/---------/\-------\ | |inférieurs.
| à la | | | |
Noms des | retraite | marnes | lignite | | | Nombre
genres. | des mers. |calcaires.|et succin.| | |d’espèces.
---------+-----------+----------+----------+----+----+----------
| | | | | |
Papilio. | | * | * | | * | 4
=========+===========+==========+==========+====+====+==========
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