A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Sismonda, Eugenic. Materiaux pour servir a 

 la paleontologie du terrain tertiaire du Piemont. 

 Mem. accad. sc. Torino, (2), 22 : 391-471, //. 1-33. 

 40. Torino. 1865. 



Refers, p. 470, to the occurrence of the larva of Libellula Doris 

 in the upper miocene beds of Guarene ; it is figured, pi. 17, 

 fig. 6. 



Sivers, Henricus Jacobus. Cvriosorvm niendor- 

 piensivm. 4. Lvbecae. 1732. 



Specimen TV sistens svccinorvm descriptionem occupies pp. 

 65-81, with a plate. Reference furnished by Dr. Hagen. 



Smith, Edward. On the stream works of Pento- 

 wan. Trans, geol. soc. Lond., 4 : 404-409. 4. London. 

 1817. 



Records, p. 407, the "wings of coleopterous insects" at a 

 depth of forty-six feet from the surface of the ground below lay- 

 ers of peat and sea mud in a section at Pentowan, Cornwall, half 

 a mile from the coast. 



Smith, E. J. A'Court. Discovery of remains of 

 plants and insects. Nature, n : 88. 4. London. 

 1874. 



Notice of fossil insects in the tertiary beds at Gurnet Bay, Isle 

 of Wight. 



Smith, Frederick. See Evans, C. E. 



Smith, Sidney Irving. Notice of a fossil insect 

 from the carboniferous formation of Indiana. (Brief 

 contributions to zoology from the museum of Yale 

 College, no. ix.) 8. [New Haven. 1871.] pp. 3. 

 Amer. journ. sc., (3), I : 44-46. 8. New Haven. 

 1871. 



Describes Paolia vetusta, a neuropterous insect. 



Snellen van Vollenhoven, Samuel Constant. 

 Eugereon Boeckingi. Verslag alg. vergad. nederl. 

 entom. vereen., 22 : 13. 8. 'sGravenhage. 1867. 



Tijdschr.v. entom., (2), 3 : 13. 8. 'sGravenhage. 

 1868. 



Denies that there are any purely hemipterous characteristics in 

 Eugereon ; but regards it as simply neuropterous. 



Spener, Christian Maximilian. See Vallia- 

 nieri, A. 



Stainton, Henry Tibbats. See Bolton, J. 



Stein, Johann Philipp Emil Friedrich. Drei 

 merkwiirdige bernstein-insecte*!. Mitth. munch, en- 

 tom. ver., i : 28-30. 8. Miinchen. 1877. 



Not seen. Describes two Coleoptera and one Hymenopteron. 



Steinbeck, A. Ueber die bernsteingewinnung 

 bei Brandenburg an der Havel. 12. Brandenburg. 

 1841. Neue not. natur- heilk., 14 : 257-263. 4. 

 Weimar. 1840. 



Separate publication not seen. Notices, p. 262, collections of 

 amber insects made by Schirrmeister and himself, showing the 

 fauna to be the same as that of the amber of the Baltic coast. 



An abstract will be found in Neues jahrb. mineral., 1844: 

 121-122. 8. Stuttgart. 1844. 



Sternberg, Kasper. Vortrag des prasidenten . . . 

 in der allgemeinen versammlung des bohm. museums 

 am 14 April, 1835. Verh. gesellsch. vaterL mus. Bohm., 

 1835:12-30. 16. Prag. 1835. 



Contains, pp. 23-24, a history of the discovery of the scorpion 

 described in same volume by Corda. 



Sternberg, K. Insektengange im blatte der Fla- 

 bellaria borassifolia. Verhandl. gesellsch. vaterl. mtis. 

 Bohm., 1836: 34-35, //. i, figs- 3-4- 1 6. P ra g- l8 3 6 - 



Showing mines of an insect "ganz so, wie es die larven der 

 blattschaben in dem parenchym der blatter jetzweltlicher pflan- 

 zen hinterlassen." 



Sterzel, J. T. Ueber Palaeojulus dyadicus. Neues 

 jahrb. miner., 1878 : 729-731. 8. Stuttgart. 1878. 



Considers the fossil described by Geinitz as a myriapod to be a 

 fern-leaf, of a species of Scolecopteris. 



Sterzel, J. T. Ueber Palaeojulus dyadicus 

 Geinitz und Scolecopteris elegans Zenker. Zeitschr. 

 deiitsch. geol. gesellsch., 30 : 417-426, taf. 19. 8. 

 Berlin. 1878. 



Mainly devoted to showing that no animal remains have been 

 found which possess the characters assigned to Palaeojulus dyadi- 

 cus ; but this so-called myriapod is the half of a leaf of Scolecop- 

 teris elegans, a fern. 



Sterzel, J. T. Ueber Scolecopteris elegans 

 Zenker und andere fossile reste aus dem hornstein 

 von Altendorf bei Chemnitz. Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. 

 gesellsch., 32 : 1-18, taf. 1-2. 8. Berlin. 1880. 



Has a brief reference to Palaeojulus dyadicus on pp. 1-2. 



Sterzel, J. T. Ueber zwei neue insektenarten 

 aus dem karbon von Lugau. Ber. naturw. gesellsch. 

 Chemnitz, 7 : 27 1-276, //. 8. Chemnitz. 1881. 



Describes and figures Blattina (Etoblattina) lanceolata and 

 Termes (Mixotermes?) lugauensis. 



Stizenberger, Ernst. Uebersicht der versteine- 

 rungen des grossherzogthums Baden. 8. Freiburg 

 i. B. 1851. pp. 144. 



A list of Oeningen insects compiled from the first two parts of 

 Heer's work occurs on pp. 95-101 with references to collections ; 

 and on p. 119 a reference to eggs and larvae of beetles and flies 

 from the alluvium of the Rhine. 



Stoehr, Emilio. Notizie preliminari su le piante 

 ed insetti fossili della formazione solfifera in Sicilia. 

 Bull. com. geol. Ital., 1875, 284-287. 8. Roma. 1875. 



The insects from Girgenti are determined by Dr. von Heyden, 

 p. 286, as larvae of Libellula Doris Heer and L. Eurynome 

 Heer, the former in great quantities ; both are Oeningen species. 



Strickland, Hugh Edwin. On the occurrence of 

 a fossil dragon-fly in the lias of Warwickshire. Mag. 

 nat. hist., (n.s.), 4: 301-302, ^.r. 11-13. 8. London. 

 1840. 



Description of Aeshna liassina. 



Strickland, H. E. On the results of recent re- 

 searches into the fossil insects of the secondary 

 formations of Britain. Rep. Brit, assoc. adv. sc., 

 1845, notices, 58. 8. London. 1846. 



A general account of what had been published by Brodie, with 

 a few general deductions. 



Swagerman, Everard Pieter. Waarneeming om- 

 trent de insekten, welken in de gomlak gevonden 

 worden. Verhand.zeeuwsch.genootsch.wetensch. Vliss., 

 7,11:227-258. pi. 8. Middelburg. 1780. 



Swinton, A. H. Notes on certain fossil Orthop- 

 tera claiming affinity with the genus Gryllacris. 8. 

 [London. 1874.] pp. 5. pi. Geol. mag., (2), i : 337- 

 adon. 



8. Lone 



1874. 



341, //. 14. 



Entitled on cover of separate On fossil Orthoptera. Claims 

 to show that the carboniferous Corydalis Brongmarti is a Gryl- 

 lacris, and discusses the tertiary species which have been referred 

 to Gryllacris. 



Swintpn, A. H. Insect variety : its propaga- 

 tion and distribution ; treating of the odours, dances, 

 colours, and music in all grasshoppers, cicadae and 

 moths ; beetles, leaf-insects, bees, and butterflies ; 

 bugs, flies, and ephemerae ; and exhibiting the bear- 

 ing of the science of entomology on geology. 8. 

 London, etc. [1880.] pp. 10, 326, pi. 7. 



Notices the stridulation of extinct insects, pp. 163-164 ; and 

 reviews the strata containing insect remains in a discursive man- 

 ner, pp. 260-271. 



Swinton, A. H. A study of the variation of 

 the small tortoise-shell butterfly (Vanessa urticae.) 

 Hardw. science gossip, 1881 : 147-149, 176-1 79, figs. 

 88, 104, 105. 1. 80. London. 1881. 



A study of the evolution and specialization of butterflies and 

 moths, showing how the markings of the wings of fossil Lepi- 

 doptera harmonize with the systematic design found in recent 

 species ; in figs. 104, 105 on p. 177 he attempts restorations of 

 Neorinopis sepulta and a tertiary Bombyx, both from Aix. 



