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
A cursory review of Radoboj insects, mentioning the rarity
of Lepidoptera, and specifying _Eugonia atava_ (_Vanessa
attarina_) and _Mylothrites Pluto_ (_Vanessa Pluto_). He
remarks that the former resembles _V. cardui_ and probably fed
on thistles, although these had not yet been found in a fossil
condition in that locality; and that the latter was nearly
allied to _Papilio Hadena_.
1859. HEYDEN. Fossile Insecten aus der Rheinischen Braunkohle. Dunk. u.
Mey. Palæontogr., VIII, 1-15, Taf. 1-2.
Contains pp. 12-13, Taf. I, fig. 10, description and figure of
_Thanatites vetula_ (_Vanessa vetula_).
1860. HEER. Untersuchungen über das Klima und die Vegetations
Verhältnisse des Tertiärlandes. 4to. Winterthur.
Refers to some of the fossil butterflies described from Radoboj
and Aix.
1861. HEER. Recherches sur le climat et la Végétation du pays tertiaires;
traduction de Gaudin. 4to. Winterthur.
The same as the previous; and also (on p. 205; not in the
original edition) the following reference: “un cinquième
(_Thaites Ruminiana_) est très voisin du genre Thais qui
appartient à la faune méditerranéene.”
1868. BUTLER. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the family Satyridæ in
the collection of the British Museum. 8vo. London.
Gives an appendix (pp. 189-190) on fossil species, in which
he discusses the zoological position of _Neorinopis sepulta_
(_Cyllo sepulta_).
1869. BUTLER. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Fabricius in
the collection of the British Museum. 8vo. London.
Discusses briefly (p. 109) the relationship of “_Vanessa
Pluto_” to _Argynnis Diana_ and _Junonia Hedonia_.
1872. SCUDDER. Description d’un nouveau papillon fossile (_Satyrites
Reynesii_) trouvé à Aix en Provence. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 62-71, pl. 7.
Also separate, pp. 7.
Description of a New Fossil Butterfly (_Satyrites Reynesii_)
found at Aix in Provence. This is a translation of a portion of
my paper. Geol. Mag., IX, 532-533, pl. 13, figs. 2-3. The same,
separate, pp. 2.
Describes and figures _Lethites Reynesii_.
1872. SAPORTA. Études sur la végétation du Sud Est de la France à
l’époque tertiaire. Suppl. I. Révision de la flore des gypses d’Aix. 1er
fascicule, Généralités. Ann. Sc. Nat. [5], Bot. XV, 277-351.
Discusses (p. 342) the probable food of the caterpillars of
_Neorinopis sepulta_ and _Thaites Ruminiana_.
1873. BUTLER. On Fossil Butterflies. Lepidoptera Exotica, part xv, pp.
126-8, pl. 48.
On a Fossil Butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidæ from
the Stonesfield slate near Oxford; with notices of two other
foreign forms from France and Croatia. Geol. Mag., X, No. ciii,
2-4, pl. 1.
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