A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Aymard, Auguste. La decouverte d'un assez 

 grand nombre d'insectes dans les marnes subor- 

 donnees a la formation gypseuse pres du Puy. Bull, 

 soc. gtol. France, vol. 6. //. 235-36. 8. Paris. 



1835- 



A brief announcement with a consideration of its geological 

 import. 



Ballenstedt [Johannes Georg Justus]. Entdec- 

 kung von insekten-nestern der urwelt im bernstein. 

 Archiv f. d. neuest. entd. a. d. urw., bd. 5. s. 28-40. 

 8. Quedlinburg und Leipzig. 1823. 



A very full abstract of Troost's paper, with comments. 



Bar [Constant]. Sur la Breyeria borinensis. 

 Comptes rendus soc. ent. Belg. (2) xxviii : 6. 8. Bru- 

 xelles. 1876. 



Ann. soc. ent. Belg. 19, comptes rendus ; 53-54. 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1876. 



Considers Breyeria an homopterous insect, and maintains that 

 the lack of flowers in carboniferous times is not proof of the 

 absence of Lepidoptera. 



Barthelemy-Iiapommeraye, A. Carabe d'Agas- 

 siz, Carabus Agassizi. 8. pp. 4. Marseille. [1850.]. 



Extract and notice by G(uerin) M(eneville) under same title. 

 Rev. etmag. zool. (2). vol. 3, //. 203-04. 8. Paris. 1851. 



Bassi, Carlo Agostino. Memorie intorno allo 

 studio degl' insetti fossile in genere. Atti reun. 

 scienz. ital. 3: 400-01. 4. Firenze. 1841. 



An account of three or four insects from Sinigaglia in the 

 Milan museum, to only one of which a name Cleonolithus an- 

 tiquiis is given. None of them are properly described. 



An abstract entitled Ueber die wichtigkeit des studiums der 

 fossilen knochen [kerfen?] fur die geplogie will be found in 

 Oken's Isis, 1843, pp. 418-19. 4. Leipzig. 1843. 



Beck [H. ?]. Notes on the geology of Denmark. 

 Proc.geol. soc. Land. 2: 217-20. 8. London. 1836. 



Lond. Edinb.phil. mag. (3) 8 : 553-56. 8. London. 

 1836. 



Contains a paragraph relating to tertiary deposits of Jutland 

 "older than the erratic blocks" and containing "the elytra of 

 beetlesj the cases of the larvae of Phryganaea, and a hymenop- 

 terous insect which the author has called Cleptis Steenstriipii." 



Beckles, S. H. On the lowest strata of the cliffs 

 at Hastings. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Lond. vol. 12, 

 proc. pp. 288-92 ; with a section. 8. London. 1856. 



Merely mentions (p. 291) the discovery of insects in the upper 

 members of the series, referred to the wealden. 



van Beneden, P. J., et Coemans, Eug. Un in- 

 secte et un gasteropode pulmone du terrain houiller. 

 8. pp. 20. pi. Bull. acad. roy. Belg. (2) 23, iv. 

 384-401, //. 8. Bruxelles. 1867. 



Describes in detail and figure Omalia macroptera, which the 

 authors consider allied to Hemerobius. 



Berendt, Georg Carl. Die insekten im bern- 

 stein. Ein beitrag zur thiergeschichte der vorwelt. 

 ies heft. 40. Danzig. 1830. pp. (2) 39. 



Only pp. 29-39 deal with the insects themselves, and the re- 

 marks are of a very general nature, but give the first published 

 information concerning amber insects based on considerable col- 

 lections. Hagen (Bibl. ent. i, 42) records plates to a second 

 part. 



Berendt, G. C. Memoire pour servir a 1'histoire 

 des blattes antediluviennes traduit de 1'allemand par 

 M. Heller. Ann. soc. ent. France, 5 : 539-46. //. 16. 

 80. Paris. 1836. 



Descriptions and figures of the species found in amber. 



Berendt, G. C. Die im bernstein befindlichen 

 organischen reste der vorwelt, gesammelt in verbin- 

 dung mit mehreren bearbeitet und herausgegeben von 

 Dr. Georg Carl Berendt. 2 v. f. Berlin. 1845-56. 

 The covers entitled Organische reste im bernstein. 



Contains four parts ; the first volume has the plants by Goep- 

 pert and Berendt (with general chapters on amber by Berendt), 



and the Crustacea, Myriapoda, Arachnida and Aptera by Koch 

 and Berendt ; the second volume, the Hemiptera and Orthop- 

 tera by Germar and Berendt, and the Neuroptera by Pictet and 

 Hagen. 



Berendt, G. C. See also Germar, E. F., und 

 Berendt, G. C. ; Goeppert, H. R., und Berendt, 

 G. C.; Koch, C. L., und Berendt, G. C.; and 

 Pictet-Baraban, F. J., und Hagen, H. A. 



Beringer, J. D. A. Lithographiae wirceburgen- 

 sis, ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insecti- 

 formium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae specimen 

 primum, quod in dissertatione inaugurali physico- 

 historica, cum connexis corollariis medicis, authori- 

 tate et consensu inclytae facultatis medicae, in alma 

 eoo-francica wirceburgensium universitate, preside 

 . . . D. Joanne Bartholomaeo Adamo Beringer . . . 

 exantlatis de more rigidis examinibus pro suprema 

 doctoratus medici laurea, annexisque privilegiis rit& 

 consequendis, publicae literatorum disquisitioni sub- 

 mittit Georgius Ludovicus Hueber. ... In consueto 

 auditorio medico. Anno 1726. f. Wirceburgi. pp. 

 (12) 96, tab. 21. 



Nearly half of the plates contain grossly exaggerated, worth- 

 less figures of insects, the text for which is crowded on -p. 94 by 

 mere descriptive titles to the plates. The specimens from which 

 the plates were drawn are said to have been fabrications. 



Bertkau, Ph. Einige spinnen und ein myriapode 

 aus der braunkohle von Rott. Verhandl. naturh. 

 verein preuss. Rheinl. u. Westf. (4), 5 : 346-360. 

 taf. 5. 8. Bonn. 1878. 



A careful description of eight species, of which six are new. 



Bertrand, lie. Dictionnaire universel des fos- 

 siles propres, et /les fossiles accidentels, contenant 

 une description des terres, des sables, des sels, des 

 soufres, des bitumens, des pierres simples & com- 

 posees, communes & pretieuses, transparentes & 

 opaques, amorphes & figurees, des mineraux, des 

 metaux, des petrifactions du regne animal, & du 

 regne vegetal, &c. avec des recherches sur la forma- 

 tion de ces fossiles, sur leur origine, leur usages &c. 

 2 v. 8. La Haye. 1763. 



Under the heading Entomolithes, vol. i, pp % 201-02, is a very 

 brief account of those then known, with bibliographical refer- 

 ences. 



Binfield, William R. and Henry. On the occur- 

 rence of fossil insects in the wealden strata of the 

 Sussex coast. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Lond., vol. 10, 

 proc.pp. 171-76. 8. London. 1854. 



The insects are mentioned only by suborders, and the paper 

 is mostly made up of geological sections of the places where in- 

 sects were found. 



Binney, E. W. On two remarkable fossil insects 

 from the lower coal measures near Huddersfield. 

 Proc. lit. phil. soc. Manch., 6 : 59. 80. Manchester. 

 1867. 



Geol. mag., 4: 132. 8. London. 1867. 



Notices the occurrence of Xylobius sigillariae and of a sup- 

 posed coleopterous larva. 



Blake, J. F. See Tate, R., and Blake, J. F. 



Blanford, W. T. See Medlicott, H. B., and 

 Blanford, W. T. 



Bloch, D. Beytrag zur naturgeschichte des 

 kopals. Berlin. 160. 1776. Beschdft. berl. gesellsch. 

 naturf.fr. 2: 91-196, tab. iii-v. 



Contains, pp. 164-190, Verzeichniss einiger merkwurdigen in- 

 sekten, welche in kopal eingeschlossen, with rude figures. 



Bock, F. S. Versuch einer kurzen naturge- 

 schichte des preussischen bernsteins und einer neuen 

 wahrscheinlichen erklarung seines ursprunges. i6<>. 

 Konigsberg. 1767. pp. 146. 



Gives on pp. 138-146 a list of some insects and other animali 

 found in amber. 



