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existing species, and can be satisfactorily classed under publislied 

 eenera That any of those which are found in amber are tdenhcal 

 with existing species I do not believe, for out of many hundred 

 specimens, nay, I may say thousands, which have fallen under my 

 notice, none have yet induced me to change my opmion that they 

 are otherwise than of the Tertiary period." 



The number of species of the different orders of insects dis- 

 .covered in am):er, and according to the list at the end of Mr 

 Hope's paper on "Succinic Insects" and the investigations of 

 Sendelius, Berendt, Germar, Bronn, Gravenborst, Ehrenberg, 

 Pictet, and other writers on the subject, is as follows :— 



Of the Coleoptera, about 160 species. 



,, Hemoptera, ,, ^"^ '» 



„ Neuroptera, ,, ^" " 



Hymenoptera, ,, -^ •' 



Orthoptera, ,, '■" " 



„ Hemiptera, „ ^'^ " 



Lepidoptera, ,, • ^^ " 



,, Diptei-a, „ "" " 



Mr. Hope also gives a list of species from Copal and Auime, 



which includes : — 



Coleoptera 9 species. 



Hymenoptera -' " 



Hemixrtera ^ " 



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In his "Fauna der Vorvvelt," Dr. Giebel enumerates 318 



species from Amber, viz. :— 



Coleoptera 106 species. 



Hymenoptera ^* " 



Lepidoptera '| " 



Diptera ^*g 



Neuroptera ■• ••■ •• " " 



Orthoptera .^^ " 



Hemii^tera ••■ " 



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One of the l)est accounts of the history and origin of amber 

 is .dven by Professor Zaddach of Konigsberg, an abstract of which 

 in En-Ksh, appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Science, for April, 

 1868° and since then the Rev. P. B. Brodie has written au 



