A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



I I 



Contains introduction, pp. 3-4, by A. A. Gould ; biographical 

 notice (of Dr. Deane) by H. I. Bowditch, pp. 5-14; a memoir 

 upon the fossil footmarks and other impressions of the Connecti- 

 cut River sandstone, by James Deane (compiled by Thomas 

 Tracy Bouvii), with a note by the compiler, p. 17, and the me- 

 moir, pp. 19-32 ; description of the plates, pp. 33-61 (by Mr. 

 Bouve). 



References to insect tracks are made on p. 26, and in the 

 descriptions of pi. 40-42 (pp. 57-58). 



Defrance, Jacques Louis Martin. Indusie. Diet. 

 sc. nat., 23 : 411-12. 8. Paris. 1822. 



Notice of the indusial limestone of Auvergne, and the fossil 

 phryganid cases of which it is composed. 



Defrance, J. L. M. Insectes (foss.). Diet. sc. 

 nat., 23 : 524-26. 8. Paris. 1822. 



A review of the older authors, questioning the validity of many 

 of the fossils preserved in the rocks, although accepting those 

 entombed in amber. 



Deichmilller. See Geinitz, H. B. 



Denton, William. On a mineral, resembling 

 albertite, from Colorado. Proe. Bost. soc. nat. hist. 

 10:305-06. S. Boston. 1866. 



The first account, p. 306, of fossil insects from the American 

 tertiaries; he speaks only of Diptera in a petroleum shale. 



Desmarest, Anselme Gaetano. Insectes dans le 

 succin. 



Not seen. Cf. Marcel de Serres in Ann. sc. nat. 15 : 102. 8. 

 Paris. 1828. Also Guerin in Diet, class, hist, nat., 8 : 580. 

 8. Paris. 1825. 



Desmarest, A. G. See also Dalman, J. W. 



Desmarest, Eugene. Un morceau de bois fos- 

 sile . . . qui ... a pre'sente des traces qui ont du 

 etre faites par des larves d'insectes. Ann. soc. ent. 

 France, [2], 3, bull., pp. 26-27. 8. Paris. 1845. 



Wood bored by larvae of a longicorn beetle. 



Desmoulins, Antoine. Decouverte d'elytres fos- 

 siles de coleopteres. Ferr., bull. sc. nat., 9 : 253. 8. 

 Paris. 1826. 



Note upon a locality in the roche calcaire of Mont St. Cathe- 

 rine, near Rouen, where elytra with metallic colors had been 

 found. 



Dohrn, Anton. Eugereon Boeckingi, eine neue 

 insectenform aus dem todtliegenden. 4. Cassel. 

 1866. t. p., pp. 8, taf. Palaeontogr. 13 : 333-40, 

 taf. 41. 8. Cassel. 1866. 



Description and discussion of the affinities of the most re- 

 markable fossil insect yet discovered, considered here to unite 

 the Hemiptera and Neuroptera. 



Dohrn, A. Zur kenntniss der insecten in den 

 primarformationen. Palaeontogr., 16: 129-34, taf. 8. 

 4. Cassel. 1867. 



Further discussion of Eugereon and description of two new 

 carboniferous insects ; for a number of the earlier insects a new 

 order, Dictyoptera, is for the first time proposed. 



Dohrn, A. Eugereon Boeckingi und die gene- 

 alogie der arthropoden. Stett. entom. zeit., 28 : 145- 

 I 53X- r U 1 ]- 8. Stettin. 1867. 



Fuller discussion of the affinities of Eugereon and its bearings 

 on Haeckel's views of the genealogy of insects. 



Dohrn, A. Julus Brassi n. sp. ein myriapode 

 aus der steinkohlenformation (with note by Weiss). 

 Verhandl. naturh. ver. preuss. Rheinl. u. Westph., 

 [3], 5 : 335-36, pi. 6. 80. Bonn. 1868. 



Description of a species from Lebach with memoranda of pre- 

 viously described species. The note by Weiss is purely geologi- 

 cal, on the probable equivalence of the Lebach beds and those 

 yielding Xylobius. 



Doubleday, Edward, and West-wood, John 

 Obadiah. The genera of diurnal lepidoptera; com- 

 prising their generic characters, a notice of their 

 habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the 

 species of each genus ; illustrated with 86 plates, 

 by William C. Hewitson. 2 vols. fol. London. 



1846-52. Vol. I, pp. 12, 250, (2), pi. A., 1-30 

 Vol. 2, t. p., pp. 251-534, pi. 31-80 and suppl. pi. 



Several numbers on the plates are repeated, followed by " A." 

 A single fossil species, Cyllo sepulta, is catalogued on p. 361. 



Duisburg, H. von. Zur bernstein-fauna. Schriften 

 k. phys.-b'kon. gesellsch. Konigsb., 9 : 23-28, fig. 4. 

 Konigsberg. 1868. 



Discusses the systematic position of the smallest amber insect 

 known, a species of the hymenopterous genus Mymar, the ex- 

 panse of whose wings is scarcely more than half a millimetre. 



Duponchel, [Philogene Auguste Joseph.]. L'ex- 

 istence d'une impression tres-remarquable de lepi- 

 doptere fossile, qui a etc trouve'e dans une platriere 

 des environs d'Aix (en Provence). Ann. soc. ent. 

 France, 7, bull, ent., pp. 51-52. 8. Paris. 1838. 



First announcement of Neorinopis as a " Nymphale" ; repro- 

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



Eaton, Alfred Edwin. A monograph on the 

 ephemeridae. Trans, entom. soc. Land., 1871, 1164, 

 //. 1-6. 8. London. 1871. 



Contains a chapter on Fossil ephemeridae. pp. 38-40, and a 

 a figure, pi. i, fig. 10, of a single unnamed species from Solen- 

 hofen. 



Eaton, A. E. Did flowers exist during the car- 

 boniferous epoch ? Nature, 20 : 315. 4. London. 

 1879. 



Breyeria is an ephemerid. 



TRANSLATION. Der angebliche steinkohlenzeit- 

 schmetterling. Kosmos, 5 : 461-62. 8. Leipzig. 

 1879. 



Edwards, William Henry. The butterflies of 

 North America. 4. New York. 1868-72. pp. 

 (10), 2, (154), pi. (50). Contains also a Synopsis of 

 North American butterflies, pp. 5, 52; and a Supple- 

 mentary part, pp. (17), pi. (3), and corrected pp. 

 4-12, 19-20 of synopsis. 



p. (64) in pt. i (1868) contains a figure of Mylothrites Pluto, 

 with suggestions concerning its affinities with the living A rgyn- 

 nis Diana. 



Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. Eine samm- 

 lung bei Brandenburg aufgefundener bernstein- 

 stiicke. Froriep, Neue notizen geb. nat.-heilk., 19 : 

 120. 4. Weimar. 1841. 



Refers to insects of the genera Ceratopogon and Gryllus and to 

 Phyganidae and ants. Notice of same in Neuesjahrb. mineral., 

 1843, 502. 8. Stuttgart. 1843. 



d'Eichwald, fidouard. Sur un terrain jurassique 

 a poissons et insectes d'eau douce de la Siberie ori- 

 entale. Bull. soc. geol. France, [2], 21 : 19-25. 8. 

 Paris. 1864. 



Describes Efihemeropsii trisetalis, pp. 21-22. The deposit 

 was thought by Miilier to be Eocene. 



TRANSLATION. On a Jurassic deposit contain- 

 ing fresh-water fish and insects in Eastern Siberia. 

 Quart, journ. geol. soc. Land., 20, ii : 21-22 (Abstract 

 by R. T.). 80. London. 1864. 



d'Eichwald, E. Ueber fossile insecten und belem- 

 niten. Amtl. ber. vers. deutsch. naturf., 39 : 169-72. 

 4. Geissen. 1865. 



Notices, p. 170, the ephemerid larva described by him as 

 Ephemeropsis, found in calcareous schists on the banks of the 

 Turga in Siberia. 



d'Eichwald, E. Lethaea rossica, ou Paleontolo- 

 gie de la Russie de'crite et figuree. text, 8. atlas, 4. 

 3V. Stuttgart. 1853-68. Vol. i. Ancienne periode 

 (in 2 parts), pp. 1-19, 17-26, 1-681, 681-1657 + titles 

 to parts. 1860. Atlas, t. p., pp. 8, tab. 59. 1859. 

 Vol. 2. Periode moyenne (in 2 parts), pp. 1-35, 

 1-640, 641-1304 + titles to parts. 1865, 1868. Atlas, 

 t. p., tab. 40, expl. of plates opp. plates. 1868. 

 Vol. 3. Periode moderne, pp. 19, 533. 1853. Atlas, 

 t. p., pp. 4, tab. 14, expl. of plates opp. plates. 1853. 



