A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Pictet-de la Rive, F. J. Considerations gene- 

 rales sur les debris organiques qui ont ete trouves 

 dans 1'ambre et en particulier sur les insectes. Arch, 

 sc. phys. nat., 2 : 5-16. 8. Geneve et Paris. 1846. 



Amber insects altogether differ specifically from living forms, 

 a considerable number of genera are also distinct and there are 

 two peculiar families: Archaeides in the Arachnida and Pseudo- 

 perlides in the Neuroptera; a warmer climate than the present 

 is indicated. 



TRANSLATION : General considerations on the 

 organic remains, an^ in particular on the insects, 

 which have been found in amber. Edinb. new phil. 

 journ., 41 : 391-401. 8. Edinburgh. 1846. 



Pictet-de la Rive, F. J. Traite elementaire de 

 paleontologie ou Histoire naturelle des animaux fos- 

 siles considered dans leurs rapports zoologiques et 

 geologiques. 4 vol. 8. Geneve. 1844-46. T. 4. 

 (1846), pp. 15, 458, pi. 20 in text. 



IV classe, Arachnides, pp. 87-89; V classe, Insectes, pp. 

 91-114; VI classe, Myriapodes, pp. 115-116. No insects are 

 figured. 



Pictet-de la Rive, F. J. Traite de paleontologie 

 ou Histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles consi- 

 deres dans leurs rapports zoologiques et geologiques. 

 2e edition. 4 vol. 8 ; atlas, 4. Paris. 1853-57. T. 2 

 (1854), t. p., pp. 727 ; atlas, pp. 32, pi. 56. 



Insectes, pp. 301-405 ; Myriapodes, p. 405 ; Arachnides, pp. 

 406-410; Atlas, pi. 40-41. A few additions from Serres MS. 

 are quoted. 



Pictet-de la Rive, F. J. See also Germar, E. 

 F., und Berendt, G. C. 



Pictet-de la Rive, F. J , tind Hagen, H. A. 

 Die im bernstein befindlichen neuropteren der vor- 

 welt. f. Berlin. [1856.] t. p., pp. 41-125, pi. 5-8. 

 Berendt, Bernst. befiudL org. reste vorw., 2fx bd. i e abth. 

 pars. 



More than seventy species are described in full detail and ad- 

 mirably figured. Under the genera also Hagen gives good ac- 

 counts of the literature of fossil species and prefaces the whole 

 with general observations of the amber Neuroptera. The work 

 is mostly Hagen' s. Some descriptions are by Menge. Descrip- 

 tion of the larva of a Phasma is also appended, p. 122. 



Pidgeon, Edward. The fossil remains of the 

 animal kingdom. 8. London. 1830. pp. (6), 544, 

 (i), pi. (49). 



Forms the supplementary volumes of Griffith's Animal king- 

 dom of Cuvier. Insects are treated in a summary manner on 

 PP- 493~495 but nothing new is added, and none are figured. 



Plateau, Fe"lix. See de Borre, A. P. 

 Plinius Secundus, Caius. Naturalis historia. 

 Liber 37, section 72. 



As translated by Bostock and Riley (8, London, 1857) that 

 part of the passage which may refer to fossil insects reads as fol- 

 lows : " Other stones, again, derive their names from various ani- 

 mals . . . scorpitis, from either the colour or the shape of the 

 scorpion . . . Myrmecitis presents the appearance of an ant 

 crawling within, and cantharias of a scarabaeus." 



Ponzi, G. Lavori degli insetti nelle lignite del 

 Monte Vaticano. 4. Roma. [1876.] pp. 3. 

 Not seen. 



Presl, Joannes Swatoplucus. Additamenta ad 

 Faunam protogaeam, sistens descriptiones aliquot 

 animalium in succino inclusorum. Deliciae pragenses, 

 I : 191-210. 16. Pragae. 1822. 



Describes i species of Cynips, 6 Formica, i Tinea, 3 Tipula, 

 4 Musca, 2 Aranea, \ Phalangium, and i Acarus. Noticed in 

 Oken's/jw, 1823: 374-375. 4. Jena. 1823. 



Frestwich, Joseph. On some of the faults which 

 affect the coalfield of Coalbrookdale. Land. Edinb. 

 phiL mag., iv : 375-376. 8. London. 1834. 



Proc.geol.soc.Lond.,2:\%-2Q. 8. London. 1834. 



In a notice of the fossils a beetle and a spider are mentioned, 

 p. 376 (20), as occurring in the iron-stone nodules at that place. 



Frestwich, J. On the geology of Coalbrook 

 Dale. Trans, geol. soc. Land., (2), 5: 413-495, //. 

 30-41. 4. London. 1840. 



Contains a notice, p. 446, of three fossil insects (Curculloides 

 [sic] Ansticii, C. Prestvicii and a neuropteron) from the locality; 

 also entered in the table on p. 490. 



PreVost, Constant. Observations sur les schistes 

 calcaires oolitiques de Stonesfield en Angleterre, 

 dans lesquels ont ete trouves plusieurs ossemens 

 fossiles de mammiferes. Ann. sc. natur., 4 : 389- 

 417, pi. 17-18. 8. Paris. 1824. 



Refers merely, p. 393, and in explanation of plates, p. 417, to 

 elytra of a Buprestis? figured pi. 18, fig. 26. 



Procaccini Ricci, Vito. Lettera . . . sugli en- 

 tomoliti delle gessaje sinigagliesi. Num. ann. sc. 

 natur., ann. 4, torn. 7, //. 448-456. 8. Bologna. 

 1842. 



A general paper, in which on p. 449 it is stated that Coleop- 

 tera, Hemiptera, Lepicloptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Dip- 

 tera and Aptera have been found at Senigaglia. 



Quenstedt, Friedrich August. Handbuch der 

 petrefaktenkunde. 8. Tubingen. 1852. pp. 6, 792, 

 pi. 62. 



Arachnidae, pp. 306-309; Insecta, pp. 309-319. .The 2d edi- 

 tion not seen. 



Raffray, Achille. Note sur des insectes ren- 

 fermes dans des morceaux de gomme copal. Ann. 

 soc. ent. France, (5), ^,bull. ent., 125-126. 8. Paris. 

 1875- 



General notes based on a collection exhibited ; a single para- 

 graph is devoted to insects. 



Rathke, Martin Heinrich. Untersuchung iiber 

 die bernstein-insecten. Oken's Isis, 1829 : 413. 4. 

 Leipzig. 1829. 



Mentions his large collection of amber insects collected in 

 company with Behrendt ; the Coleoptera had been studied by 

 Heyden and Schmidt, the Ichneumonidae by Gravenhorst, the 

 Diptera by Meigen and Wiedemann. 



Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig. See 

 Geiiiitz, H. B. 



Reuss, August Fmanuel. Kurze iibersicht der 

 geognostischen verhaltnisse Bohmens; fiinf vortrage, 

 gehalten im naturwissenschaftlichen vereine Lotos im 

 jahre 1853; mit drei geologischen iibersichtskarten. 

 8. Prag. 1854. pp. 103, pi. 3. 



Refers, p. 59, to two scorpions and a spider from the carbon- 

 iferous rocks of Bohemia. 



Robert, Eugene. Lettre sur les observations 

 faites en Danemarck, en Norwege et en Suede, et 

 dans laquelle il parle du succin, etc. Bull. soc. geol. 

 France, 9: 114-118. 8. Paris. 1838. 



The letter is addressed to M. Cordier. The amber containing 

 insects is mentioned on pp. 114-115 : the insects mentioned are 

 Aphodius fossor, Buprestis, Galeruca, " altises " and "le bou- 

 cher, " all on p. 1 14. It is quoted in the Royal society's catalogue 

 under the title: De la disposition de la tourbe Elseneur et des 

 insectes qu'on y trouve. 



Roemer, Ferdinand. On a fossil- spider lately 

 discovered in the coal measures of Upper Silesia. 

 Report Bril. assoc. adv. sc., 1865, notices, 73. 8. Lon- 

 don. 1866. 



Geol mag., 2 : 468. 8. London. 1865. 



These two are essentially the same with slightly differing titles ; 

 and are practically an abstract of the following. 



Roemer, F. Protolycosa anthracophila, eine fos- 

 sile spinne aus dem steinkohlen-gebirge Oberschle- 

 siens. Neues jahrb.f. mineral., 1866 : 136-143, taf. 3. 

 8. Stuttgart. 1866 



Roemer, F. Notiz iiber ein vorkommen von fos- 

 silen kafern (coleopteren) im rhat bei Hildesheim. 



