A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Lubbock, Sir John. The president's address. 

 Trans, ent. soc. Lond., [3], $, journ. of proc., 113-131. 

 80. London. 1867. 



Records, pp. 128-129, the progress during the year in the 

 study of fossil insects. 



Lubbock, J. On the origin and metamorphoses 

 of insects. 16. London. 1874. pp. 16, 108. 



Contains a chapter [v] on the origin of insects, in which, on 

 p. 86, is a general statement of the geological appearance of the 

 different orders of insects. 



Lubbock, J. Address read before the entomo- 

 logical society of London at the anniversary meet- 

 ing on the iQth January, 1881. 8. London. iSSi. 

 pp. 17. 



Refers, pp. 12-13, to recent researches on fossil insects, par- 

 ticularly by Goss and Scudder. 



Lucas, Hippolyte. [Note sur les especes de cole- 

 opteres decrites par Dalman dans son memoire : 

 Om insekter inneslutne i copal.] Bull, seances soc. 

 entom. France, 1878, no. 7, /. 75. 8. Paris. 1878. 



Remarks on the omission of these insects from Gemminger 

 and Harold's Catalogus coleopterorum, and cites the species of 

 all orders figured by Dalman. 



Luidius, Edvardus. Edvardi Luidii apud oxoni- 

 enses cimeliarchae ashmoleani Lithophylacei britan- 

 nici ichnographia. Sive lapidum aliorumque fos- 

 silium britannicorum singular! figura insignium, 

 quotquot hactenus vel ipse invenit vel ib amicis ac- 

 cepit : distributio classica : scrinii sui lapidarii reper- 

 torium cum locis singulorum natalibus exhibens ; 

 additis rariorum aliquot figuris acre incisis : cum 

 epistolis ad clarissimos viros de quibusdam circa 

 marina fossilia et stirpes minerales praesertim no- 

 tandis. Editio altera : novis quorumdam speciminum 

 iconibus aucta ; subjicitur authorio praelectio de 

 stellis marinis, etc. 8. Oxonii. 1760. pp. (16), 

 156, (4), pi. 25. 



Epistola 3. Summarium literarum V. C. D. Richardi Richard- 

 son, M.D. De entrocho lapide, conchitis, et lithophytis seu 

 plantis mineralibus agri eboracensis ; de bufonibus mediis saxis 

 mclusis, et depictis aliquot in schisto carbonaria insectis, pp. 

 107-114, pi. 4, fig. 197 (4 figs). First edition, Lipsiae, 1699, not 

 seen. 



Lyell, Sir Charles. On the boulder formation or 

 drift, and associated fresh-water deposits composing 

 the mud cliffs of eastern Norfolk. Proc. geol. soc. 

 fond., 3 : 171-179. 8. London. 1840. 



Mention is made, p. 175, of the discovery of three elytra of 

 Coleoptera, which Curtis determines to be identical with living 

 British species of Donacia and Copris. 



Lyell, C. Elements of geology, or The ancient 

 changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated 

 by geological monuments ; sixth edition greatly en- 

 larged and illustrated with 770 woodcuts. 8. London. 

 1865. pp. 16, 794. 



Contains references to fossil insects and some illustrations of 

 them on pp. 243, 250, 255, 331, 425, 491. Earlier editions not 

 examined. 



MacCulloch, John. On animals preserved in 

 amber, with remarks on the nature and origin of 

 that substance. Quart, journ. sc. lit. arts, 16: 41-48. 

 8. London. 1823. 



Froriep, Notizen, 6, no. \\^,pp. 49-51. 4. Erfurt. 

 1823. 



Mainly devoted to describing the methods of distinguishing 

 amber from other gums ; insects and other animals are only 

 mentioned in a general way. 



Mclntire, E. S. See Elrod, M. N., and Mcln- 

 tire, E. S. 



McLachlan. Robert. Note sur 1'insecte fossile 

 decrit par M. P. deBorre sous le nom de Breyeria 



borinensis. Comptes rendus soc. ent. Belg., (2), no. 

 41 : 5-6. 8. Uruxellcs. 1877. 



Ann. soc. ent. ttelg. 20 : 36-37. 8. Bruxelles. 1877. 



Considers the insect an ephemerid. 



McLachlan, R. Did flowers exist during the 

 carboniferous epoch? Nature, 19 : 554. 4. London. 

 1879, 



Breyeria is an ephemerid. 



McLachlan, R. The same. Nature, 20 : 5-6. 4. 

 London, 



Response to Mr. Wallace, disputing the lepidopterous nature 

 of Breyeria borinensis. 



McLachlan, R. See Anon. 



Mahr, Carl Hermann. Beitrag zur kenntniss fos- 

 silen insecten der steinkohlen formation Thuringens. 

 Neues jahrb. f. mineral., 1870 : 282-285, figs. 8. 

 Stuttgart. 1870. 



Description and figure of two species of Blattina from Ilmenau. 



Malepeyre. See Buckland, W. 



Malfatti, Giovanni. Osservazioni sopra alcuni 

 insetti fossili dell' ambra e del copale. 8. Milano. 

 1878. pp. 15. Atti soc. ital. sc. nat., 21 : 181-1915. 

 8. Milano. 1878. 



Of a general nature, but contains at the close a list of addi- 

 tions to the Museo civico with remarks; and three pages of 

 bibliography are appended. 



Malfatti, G. Due piccoli imenotteri fossili dell' 

 ambra siciliana. 4. [Roma. 1881.] pp. 4, figs. 

 Atti accad. line., (3), trans., 5 : 80-83, 2 figs. 40. 

 Roma. 1881. 

 Describes and figures a Myrmar and a Tapinoma. 



Maiitell, Gideon Algernon. A tabular arrange- 

 ment of the organic remains of the county of Sussex. 

 Trans. geol. soc. Lond., (2), 3 : 201-216. 4. London. 

 1829. 



Reference is made on p. 201 to the occurrence of larval cases 

 of Phryganidae in the silt or blue clay of Lewes Levels. 



Mantell, G. A. The wonders of geology. First 

 American from third London edition. 2 vols. 16. 

 New Haven. 1839. Vol. i, pp. 16, 1-428, front., 

 pi. 4; vol. 2, pp. 7, 429-804 (24), pi. 6-10. 



" Fossil insects " (of Aix). i : 247-250, tab. 45. " Insects of 

 the coal formation." 2 : 679-680. 



Mantell, G. A. Tlu- same : 4th ed. London, 1840. 

 6th ed. 2 v. 16. London, 1848. Vol. i, pp. 15, 

 482 ; vol. 2, pp. 483-938, plates as above. 7th ed. 

 revised and augmented by T. Rupert Jones. 2 v. 

 160. London. Vol. i, pp. 24, 1-480, (1857) ; vol. 2, 

 pp. 16, 481-1019 (1858). 



Mantell, G. A. The medals of creation, or First 

 lessons in geology and in the study of organic re- 

 mains. 2 vols. 16. London. 1844. Vol. i, pp. 

 28, 1-456, pi. i, 3-6; vol. 2, pp. 6, 457-1016, pi. 2. 



Fossil insects and spiders, pp. 570-584, with woodcuts 122- 

 124. 



Mantell, G. A. The same: 2d edition entirely re- 

 written. 2 v. 16. London. 1854. Vol. i, pp. 

 32, 1-446; vol. 2, pp. n, 447-930, plates as before. 



Mantell, G. A. Notes on the wealden strata of 

 the Isle of Wight, with an account of the bones of 

 iguanodons and other reptiles discovered at Brook 

 Point and Sandown Bay. Quart. Journ. geol. soc. 

 Lond., 2, i : 91-96. 8. London. 1846. 



In the closing paragraphs brief reference is made to elytra of 

 "two or more species of Coleoptera ?) at Water! ngbury. 



Mantell, G. A. Geological excursions round the 

 Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dor- 

 setshire ; illustrative of the most interesting geologi- 



