A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Butler, A. G. On fossil butterflies. 4. [London, 

 pp. 126-28. pi. 48. ButL, lepid. exot., part 

 xv, pp. 126-28, //. 48. 4. London. 1873. 



Description and illustration of three species, including for the 

 first time Palaeontina oolitica. The figure of the latter was 

 copied into the Graphic of Feb. 22, 1873, with a brief account 

 of it, under the title, "The oldest fossil butterfly in the world." 



Butler, A. G. Notes on the impression of Palae- 

 ontina oolitica in the Jermyn street museum. The 

 cover entitled : On a fossil butterfly in the Museum 

 of practical geology, Jermyn street). 8. [London. 

 1874.] pp. 4, pi. Geol. mag., dec. 2, vol. I, //. 

 446-49, pi. 19. 8. London. 1874. 



A rejoinder to Scudder, and in favor of the lepidopterous 

 character of Palaeontina. 



Buttner, David Sigismond. Rudera diluvii testes, 

 i. e. zeichen und zeugen der siindfluth ; in ansehung 

 des itzigen zustandes unserer erd- und wasser-kugel ; 

 insonderheit der darinnen vielfaltig auch zeither in 

 querfurtischen revier unterschiedlich angetroff enen ; 

 ehemahls verschwemten thiere und gewachse ; bey 

 dem lichte natiirlicher weissheit betrachtet ; und 

 nebst vielen abbildungen zum druck gegeben. 4. 

 Leipzig. 1710. front., t. p., pi., pp. (6), 314, (20), 

 pi. 30. 



Figures a few insects on plates 16 and 23, briefly referred to on 

 page 226. 



Charpentier, Touissant von. Libellulinae euro- 

 paeae descriptae ac depictae cum tab. 48 coloratis. 

 4. Lipsiae. 1840. t.p., pp. 181, pi. 48. 



Under the section De libellulinis petrefactis, pp. 170 73, pi. 

 48, the author gives a rhumb of what was then known on the sub- 

 ject, and describes and figures some new forms. 



Charpentier, T. von. Beschreibung eines Libel- 

 lulinits aus Kroatien. Neues jahrb. f. miner., 1841, 

 332-337, //. i. 8. Stuttgart. 1841. 



Description, figure, and discussion of the affinities of a beauti- 

 fully preserved dragon-fly's wing from Radoboj. 



Charpentier, T. von. Ueber einige fossile in- 

 secten aus Radoboj in Croatien. Nova acta acad. 

 Leop.-Carol., 20, i : 399-410, tab. 21-23. 4- Vratis- 

 laviae, etc. 1843. 



Descriptions and (poor) illustrations of seven tertiary insects. 



Coemans, Eugene. See Van Beneden, P. J. et 

 Coemans, E. 



Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, Wil- 

 liam. Outlines of the geology of England and 

 Wales, with an introductory compendium of the 

 general principles of that science and comparative 

 views of the structure of foreign countries ; illus- 

 trated by a coloured map and sections, &c. Part i. 

 [all publ.] 8. London. 1822. pp. (8), 61, (i), 470, 

 map, tables, pi. of sections. 



Brief mention of coleopterous remains in the calcareous slate 

 of Stonesfield (oolite) will be found on pp. 207-209. 



Cope, Edward Drinker. Report on the vertebrate 

 paleontology of Colorado. Ann. rep. U. S. geol. surv. 

 terr., 1873, 427-533, //. 1-8. 8. Washington. 1874. 



On pp. 439-40 he refers to the horizon of the insect-bearing 

 "Green-river" shales, and records "insects and their larvae " 

 some of the latter " nearly an inch long, and others minute 

 and in prodigious numbers" from Fontanelle Creek, and the 

 " east side of Green River above the mouth of Labarge Creek." 



Cope, E. D. A contribution to the knowledge of 

 the ichthyological fauna of the Green River shales. 

 Bull. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 3 : 807-819. 8. Wash- 

 ington. 1877. 



He announces on p. 807 the discovery of fossil insects " near 

 the mouth of Labarge Creek," Wyoming Territory, and at an- 

 other locality "nearer the main line of the Wasatch Mountains." 



Coquand, Henri. Sur la decouverte faite dans 

 les platrieres d'Aix d'une grenouille fossile. Bull, 

 soc.geol. France, [2], 2: 383-386. 8. Paris. 1845. 



Announces also the occurrence of insects in the same locality, 

 and reviews what is known of them from the papers of Boisduval 

 and Curtis. 



A notice, not seen, will be found in Froriep's Neue notizen* 

 37 33-36. 4. Erfurt. 1846. 



Corda, August Karl Joseph. Ueber den in der 

 steinkohlenformation bei Chomle gefundenen fos- 

 sile scorpion. Verkandl. gesellsch. vaterl. mus. Bohm., 

 vers. 13: 35-43. pl-,figs- 1-14- *> Pra g- l8 3S- 



Contains a. Urtheil der commission bei der naturforscher- 

 versammlung in Stuttgard, pp. 35-36. & Mikroskopische un- 

 tersuchung, abbildung und beschreibung von Corda, pp. 36-43, 

 with a detailed description and discussion of the affinities of the 

 insect. 



Corda, A. K. J. Ueber eine fossile gattung der 

 afterscorpione. Verhandl. gesellsch. vaterl. mus. 

 Bohm., vers. 17 : 14-18, //. i, figs. 1-9. 8. Prag. 

 1839. 



Description of Microlabis sternbergii. An abstract will be 

 found in the Neues jahrb. f. miner. , 1841, 854-55. 8. Stutt- 

 gart. 1841. 



Cornelius, C. Ueber termiten. Verh. naturh. 

 ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westph., 14: 20-44. 8. Bonn. 

 1857- 



Contains, pp. 40-44, a letter from Dr. Hagen, criticising the 

 treatment of the fossil Termites in Goldenberg's paper in Palae- 

 ontographica . 



Costa, Achille. See Hope, F. W. 



Cotta, Bernhard. Ueber Julus terrestris, als 

 jungendliche versteinerung. Neues jahrb. f. miner. 

 i 833^ 392-394, // 5- 8 - Stuttgart. 1833. 



Description and figure of this species as found fossil near 

 Dresden in kalksintergange in gneiss. Miinster, loc. tit, p. 68 

 speaks of these as Lituiten-artige rohre. 



Croizet, (Vabbl}. Memoire sur des debris fossiles 

 de 1'Auvergne. Analyse. Bull. soc. gtol. France, 4 : 

 22-26. 8. Paris. 1833. 



Refers briefly, p. 25, to the Indusia tubulata of Auvergne. 



Croizet, (Vabb}. Indications des fossiles de 

 diverses natures qu'on trouve dans la montagne de 

 Gergovie, avec les couches qui leur servent de gise- 

 ment. Bull. soc. g&ol. France, 7 : 104-106. 8. Paris. 

 1836. 



Merely mentions the occurrence of insects at Merdogne, p. 

 106. Noticed in Neues jahrb. mineral., 1836, 626-27. 8. 

 Stuttgart. 1826. 



Croizet, (Vabbl} et Jobert (aine). Recherches sur 

 les ossemens fossiles du departement du Puy-de 

 Dome. 4. Paris. 1828. pp. (8), 224, (2), map, 

 sect. 8, pi. 48 in several series. 



Refers, p. 25, to the occurrence of Indusia tubulata in the 

 calcareous marls of the Auvergne tertiaries. 



Cronstedt, (Axel Fredric). An essay towards a 

 system of mineralogy. Translated from the original 

 Swedish with notes by Gustav von Engestrom. To 

 which is added a Treatise on the pocket laboratory, 

 containing an easy method, used by the author, for 

 trying mineral bodies, written by the translator. The 

 whole revised and corrected, with some additional 

 notes, by Samuel Mendes Da Costa. 16. London. 

 1780. t. p., pp. 36, 329. 



Refers, p. 264, to fossil insects found in the alum slate at 

 Andrarum in Skone ; I also find p. 257 of the " old ed." re- 

 ferred to, but have neither been able to examine it nor the 

 original Swedish. 



CJurtis, John. Observations upon a collection of 

 fossil insects discovered near Aix in Provence, in 

 the summer of 1828, by R. J. Murchison and Charles 

 Lyell. Murch.-Lyell, Tert. fresh water form. Aix. pp. 

 9-13, //. 6. 8. Edinburgh. 1829. 



