Describes the genus Palæontina and species oolitica (a supposed fossil butterfly), refers _Cyllo sepulta_ Boisd. to a new genus, Neorinopis, and _Vanessa Pluto_ Heer, doubtfully, to Junonia, adding remarks upon the relationships of each. 1873. ANON. The oldest Fossil Butterfly in the World. The [London] Graphic. Feb. 22. A popular account of the preceding paper, accompanied by a woodcut of _Palæontina oolitica_. 1873. BRODIE. The Distribution and Correlation of Fossil Insects, etc. 8vo. pamph. Warwick. Gives a brief notice (pp. 8-9) of the various fossils referred to butterflies, especially of _Palæontina oolitica_ and _Lethites Reynesii_, and publishes an opinion expressed to him by me that the former was Homopterous. 1874. SCUDDER. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVI, 112. Doubts the lepidopterous character of Butler’s Palæontina, and refers it, probably, to the Cicadinæ. 1874. BUTLER. Notes on the impression of _Palæontina oolitica_ in the Jermyn Street Museum. Geol. Mag. [2], I, 446-449, pl. 19. Defends the lepidopterous character of Palæontina and gives new illustrations of the same. 1874. SMITH. Discovery of Remains of Plants and Insects. Nature, XI, 88. Enumerates fossils found at Gurnet Bay, and specifies among them “butterflies.” Sehn wir daher durch das Fenster, In das alte Schattenreich, Sehen wir da statt Gespenster, Wesen, die den jetz’gen gleich; Sehen nicht des Pluto Schrecken, Sphinxe und Harpyen Brut, Nicht Chimären Flammen lecken, In der Hölle Feuer Glut, Nein! in diesen stillen Räumen Wo man sich den Orcus denkt, Sehn wir tausend Wesen träumen, Tief in ew’gen Schlaf versenkt. Haben einst die Welt genossen, Unterm blauen Himmelszelt, Jetzt sind sie in Fels verschlossen, In der schwarzen Unterwelt. OSWALD HEER. DESCRIPTIVE. NYMPHALES—PRÆTORES—OREADES. Genus NEORINOPIS BUTLER. _Neorinopis_ Butler, Lepid. Exot., i, 127 (1873);—Ib., Geol. Mag. x, 3.