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Schroter's Lexicon, published in 1779. In a subsequent work 

 Schroter figured a Lepidopterous insect, which Germar named 

 Sphinz Schneteri. In 1783 Esper refers to the discovery of a 

 species of Gh-yllus in the Solenhofen Slate. In 1826 Van der 

 Linden described a Neuroptcrous insect from Solenhofen as 

 (Eschna Antiqua. Reference to fossil insects from this locality is 

 also made by M. Marcel de Serres in 1829, and Bronn, in 1835, 

 enumerates two genera of Coleoptera, four of Neuroptera, two of 

 Hi/iitenoptera, and one of Lepidoptera, from the same locahty. In 

 1839 Professor Germar published in the "Nova Acta" of the 

 Leopoddine Academy, descriptions of 25 species from Solenhofen, 

 including Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidop- 

 tera, and Diptera. Several species from this locality were also 

 described (in 1814) by Count Munster, including a Lepidopterovs 

 insect, which he referred to the Tineina. In his " Faima der 

 Vorwelt" (Insekten and Spinnen), pubhshed in 1856, Dr. 

 Giebel enumerates 26 species from this locality, including : — 



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Dr. Hagen, who has paid especial attention to the Solenhofen 

 Neuroptera, describes 24 species in the tenth volume of Meyer's 

 Palieontographica, published in 1862, and also gives a list of 37 

 species in the Royal collection in the Academy of Munich. In 

 Vol. XV. of Meyer's Palseontograpliica, published in 1865, Dr. 

 Hagen described and figured eight further species of Newoptna 

 from the Solenhofen formation. Of the 37 species of Neuroptera 

 in the Munich collection, 27 are said by Dr. Hagan to be dragon 

 flies, some of which belong to extinct genera, but others to such 

 as now live in America and Australia. Dr. Hagan states that 

 many of the fossil insects from this formation, preserved in the 

 Munich collection, and the collection of Dr. Crantz, of Bonn, are 



