A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Boisduval, Jean Alphonse. Compte verbal du 

 rapport . . . sur un dessin . . . qui represente une 

 empreinte de lepidqptere fossile, trouvee dans les 

 environs d'Aix. Ann. soc. ent. France, vol. 8, bull, 

 ent. pp. ir-12. 8. Paris. 1839. 



Compares the butterfly to the modern genus Cyllo. Repro- 

 duced in Scudder's Fossil butterflies, p. 15. 



Boisduval, J. A. Rapport sur une empreinte de 

 le"pidoptere trouvee dans les marnes des environs 

 d'Aix en Provence, et communiquee par M. de Sa- 

 porta. Ann. soc. ent. France, vol. 9. pp. 37174. 

 //. 8. 8. Paris. 1840. 



Description of Cyllo sefmlta. Reproduced in Scudder's Fos- 

 sil butterflies, pp. 15-17. 



Boisduval, J. A. Quelques mots de re*ponse a 

 M. Alex. Lefebvre sur les observations relatives a la 

 Cyllo sepulta, et a laquelle il donne pour epigraphe 

 ces mots: Stupete gentes ! Ann. soc. ent. France (2). 

 vol. 9, bull. ent. pp. 96-98. 8. Paris. 1851. 



Rejoinder maintaining his own position and ridiculing that of 

 Lefebvre. Reproduced in Scudder's Fossil butterflies, p. 26. 



Bolton, John. On a deposit with insects, leaves, 

 etc., near Ulverston. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Lond. 

 vol. 18. proc. 274-77. figs. 1-2 (sections). 8. London. 

 1862. ' 



Mentions only a few insects determined in a general way by 

 Mr. Henry Tibbats Stainton. 



de Bonnac. Sur 1'ambre jaune. Hist. acad. roy. 

 sc. 1705: 41-44. 4. Paris. 1730. 



Concludes amber to be formed on the land from its enclosure 

 of terrestrial animals, " comme des mouches, des fourmis, etc." 



de Born, Tgnace. Catalogue methodique et rai- 

 sonne de la collection des fossiles de M elle lileonore 

 de Raab. 2 v. 8. Vienne, 1790. torn. I, pp. (48), 502. 

 torn. 2, pp. (8) 499 (66), tab. i. 



Contains: Purifications d'insectes-entomolithes I., pp. 464- 

 466 ; mentions four insects- 



de Borre, A. Preudhomme. Note sur des etn- 

 preintes d'insectes fossiles, decouvertes dans les 

 schistes houillers des environs de Mons. Comptes- 

 rendus soc. ent. Belg., (2) xii: 4-7 (and discussion on 

 same by Breyer and others, 7-8). 8. Bruxelles. 



1875- 



Describes and discusses the affinities of two fossil insects 

 which he considers orthopterous ; and of a third which he com- 

 pares to a carboniferous Termes. Breyer considers one of the 

 first wings as lepidopterous. 



de Borre, A. P. Complement de la note sur des 

 empreintes d'insectes fossiles. Comptes-rendus soc. 

 ent. Belg., (2) xiii. 7-11 (and discussion on same by 

 Fologne, Lafontaine, Plateau, Breyer, and de Selys, 

 11-12). 8. Bruxelles. 1875. 



Now maintains the correctness of Breyer*s belief that one of 

 the wings is lepidopterous, or prolepidopterous, and changes the 

 generic name from Pachytylopsis, formerly given, to Breyeria. 

 Fologne and Lafontaine contend that there are two overlapping 

 win^s. Plateau at first thought it the tip of a coleopterous wing 

 of gigantic size, but withdrew his opinion. Breyer maintained 

 the latter view impossible, and de Se"lys thought it rash to refer a 

 reticulated wing to the Lepidoptera. These two papers, with- 

 out the discussion, were republished separately as follows : 



de Borre, A. P. Notes sur des empreintes d'in- 

 sectes fossiles decouvertes dans les schistes houil- 

 lers des environs de Mons. 8. Bruxelles. 1875. 

 pp. i-ro, pi. v-vi. Ann. soc. ent. Belg. 18, pp. 39- 

 42, 56-60, //. v-vi. 8. Bruxelles. 1875. 



Premier note, pp. 1-6 (39-42). Seconde note, pp. 

 6-10 (56-60). Second note reprinted as follows: 



Empreintes d'insectes fossiles decouvertes dans 

 les schistes des environs de Mons. Joiirn. zool., vol. 4, 

 pp. 291-97. 8>. Paris. 1875. 



Unaccompanied by the plate. Gervais adds brief notes. 



de Borre, A. P. Sur trois nouveaux insectes fos- 

 siles. Comptes-rendus soc. ent. Belg. (2) xviii., 17. 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1875. 



Ann. soc. ent. Belg. 18, comptes-rendus 115. 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1875. 



Notice of the discovery of two Neuroptera from the same 

 beds as Breyeria and of a supposed dipteron from the Jurassic 

 beds of Luxembourg ; M. de Borre informs me that closer exam- 

 ination proves the latter to be an homopteron. 



de Borre, A. P. [Acknowledgment of objections 

 tothelepidopterous character of Breyeria from Hagen, 

 Heer, Giard, and Scudder.] Comptes-rendus soc. ent. 

 Belg. [2] xxii. 5-6 (followed by discussion of the 

 subject by Saporta and Wcyers, pp. 6-7). 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1876. 



Ann. soc. ent. Belg. 19 : 3-4. 8. Bruxelles. 1876. 



de Borre, A. P. Note sur le Breyeria borinenis. 

 pp. 6. 8. Bruxelles. 1879. Comptes-rendus soc. ent. 

 Belg. (2) Ixv: 7-12. 8. Bruxelles. 1879. 



Maintains Breyeria to be an ancestral stock of the type of 

 Lepidoptera. 



de Borre, A. P. See also Giard, A. ; and van 

 Volxem, C. 



Bosc, Louis [Augustin Guillaume]. Note sur une 

 fossile remarquable de la montagne de Saint-Geraud- 

 le-Puy, entre Moulins et Roanne, departement de 

 1'Allier, appele 1'indusie tubuleuse. Journ. d. mines, 

 vol. 17, pp. 397-400, //. 7. 8. an xiii. 



The first notice of the remarkable caddis-fly cases of Auvergne, 

 forming the beds of so-called indusial limestone. 



Bouve", T. T. See Deane, J. 



Brauer, Friedrich. Verzeichniss der bis jetzt be- 

 kannten neuropteren im sinne Linne's. pp. 90 [n. d.j 

 Verhandl. k. k. zool.-bot. gesellsch. Wien. bd. 18 : 359- 

 416,711-42. 8. Wien. 1868. 



Includes the fossil genera and species, and contains, p. 738 

 (86), a list of the fossil Libellulina. 



Brauer, F. Betrachtungen iiber die verwandlung 

 der insekten im sinne der descendenztheorie. 8. 

 Wien. 1869. pp. 21, pi. Verhandl. k. k. zool.-bot. 

 gesellsch. Wien. 19 : 299-319, //. 10. 8. Wien. 

 1869. 



Contains, p. 19 [317], a slight reference to the structure of 

 Eugereon. 



[Braun, F.] Verzeichniss der in der kreis- 

 naturalien sammlung zu Bayreuth befindlichen po- 

 trefacten. 4. Leipzig. 1840. pp. viii, 118, kartc, 

 tabelle, taf. 22. 



Div. 6, Insecta, p. 71, mentions three insects from the braun- 

 kohl. 



Breyer. See de Borre, A. P. 



Breyn, Johann Philipp. Observatio de succinea 

 gleba, plantae cujusdam folio impraegnata, rarissima. 

 Phil, trans. 34, 154-56 //.,y^. 2. 40. London. 1728. 



Mentions a spider and a fly in amber, with minute figure of 

 latter. 



Brodie, Peter Bellinger. A notice on the discov- 

 ery of the remains of insects, and a new genus of 

 isopodous Crustacea belonging to the family Cymo- 

 thoidae in the wealden formation in the Vale of 

 Wardour, Wilts. Proc. geol. soc. Lond., 3 : 134-35. 

 80. London. 1839. 



Lond. Edinb. phil. mag. (3) 15 : 534-36. 8. 

 London. 1839. 



A section of the locality with a general account of its fossil 

 remains, those of the insects belonging to several orders. An 

 extended notice will be found in the Neues jahrb.f- mineral. 

 1843 : 238-39. 8. Stuttgart. 1843. 



Brodie, P. B. On the discovery of insects in the 

 lower beds of lias of Gloucestershire. Rep. ' brit. 

 assoc. adv. sc. 1842 : notices, 58. 8. London. 1843. 



General notice of the finding of a few insect remains, mostly 

 coleopterous, near Cheltenham. 



