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
Essentially the same as the preceding. The quotation given
above is found on p. 24 of the Jahrbuch, p. 72 of the Journal.
“Schmetterlinge” is everywhere translated Butterflies instead
of Lepidoptera. Aix in Provence is nearly always given as
Aix-la-Chapelle.
1851. LEFEBVRE. Observations relatives à l’empreinte d’un Lépidoptère
fossile (_Cyllo sepulta_) du docteur Boisduval. Ann. Soc. Ent. France
[2], IX, 71-88, pl. 3, No. II.
Criticises at length the opinion of Dr. Boisduval on the
systematic position and structure of _Neorinopis sepulta_,
maintaining that the fore and not the hind wing was furnished
with a tail, and while confessing his inability to decide upon
its relationship, inclines to the opinion that the insect was
more nearly allied to Vanessa. His studies were wholly taken
from the plate published by Boisduval.
1851. BOISDUVAL. Quelques mots de réponse à M. Alex. Lefebvre sur ses
observations relatives à la _Cyllo sepulta_. Ann. Soc. Ent. France [2],
IX, Bull. 96-98.
Defends his views against the criticisms of Lefebvre.
1852. GIEBEL. Deutschland’s Petrefacten. p. 644. 8vo. Leipzig.
Catalogues the three butterflies described by Heer from Radoboj.
1854. WESTWOOD. Contributions to Fossil Entomology. Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc. Lond., X, 378-96, pl. 14-18.
Represents on pl. 17, fig. 17, and pl. 18, fig. 27, two
fragments of wings, which he considers as belonging to
butterflies, and to which, on pp. 395-6, in the explanation of
the plates, he gives the names of _Cyllonium Boisduvalianum_
and _C. Hewitsonianum_.
1854. PICTET. Traite de Palæontologie, II, pp. 392-393, pl. 40. 8vo.
Paris.
Gives a brief account of the fossil butterflies then known, and
reproduces excellently the figures of _Neorinopis sepulta_, and
_Mylothrites Pluto_ given by Boisduval and Heer.
1856. GIEBEL. Fauna der Vorwelt, II. pp. 185-7. 8vo. Leipzig.
Gives a similar but fuller account of the butterflies described
by Heer and a brief notice of others.
1856. GIEBEL. Geologische Uebersicht der vorweltlichen Insekten.
Zeitschr. gesammt. Naturw., VIII, pp. 174-188.
Gives lists of Lepidoptera summarized from his previous work.
1856. HEER. Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence.
Vierteljahrsschr. naturf. Gesellsch. Zurich, I, 1-40.
Simply mentions in his introductory remarks the occurrence of
_Neorinopis sepulta_ at Aix, and says that most of the insects
from this locality present a Mediterranean aspect.
1858. HEER. Ueber die Insectfauna von Radoboj. Bericht 32e Versamml.
Deutsch. Naturf., 118-121.
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