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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



The insects are contained in vol. 2, ii., pp. 1 1191-95, tab. 37 

 (1868). 



Elrpd, M. N., and Mclntire, E. S. Report of a 

 geological survey of Orange county. Ann. rep. geol. 

 surv. Ind., 7 : 203-239. 8. Indianapolis. 1876. 



The geological position of Paolia vetusta is shown on pp. 

 206, 221. 



Erichson, Wilhelm Ferdinand. Zur abbildung 

 der libelle von Solenhofen. Buch, Jura in Deutschl. 

 p. 135, pi. (3.) Abhandl. kon. akad. wiss. Berlin, 

 \&37,phys. abhandl. 4. Berlin. 1839. 



Considers the insect figured by von Buch as partaking of the 

 characters o the genera Aeschna and Libellula. It was after- 

 wards named Anax Buchi by Hagen. 



Eser, Anton Friedrich. Das petrefactenlager bei 

 Ober-und Unter-Kirchberg an der Iller im oberamt 

 Laupheim. Jahresh. ver. vaterl. naturk. Witrtt., 

 4 : 258-267. 8. Stuttgart. 1849. 



Records, pp. 264-265, the discovery of two insects in the 

 miocene fish beds of Unterkirchberg. 



Esper, Eugen Johann Christoph. Ad avdiendam 

 orationem pro capessendo munere philosophiae pro- 

 fessoris pvblici extraordinarii a rectore academic . . . 

 Christiano Friderico Carolo Alexandro . . . gratiosis- 

 sime sibi collate d. martii, 1783 recitandam omni 

 qva decet observantia invitat simvlqve de animali- 

 bus oviparis et sanie frigida praeditis in cataclysmo 

 qvem svbiit orbis terrarum plerisqve salvis disserit 

 Evgen. Joann. Christoph. Esper. 4. Erlangae. 

 1783. pp. 20. 



Refers in a general way to fossil insects, pp. 18-19. 



Evans, C. E. Insect remains in the Paludina 

 beds at Peckham (with note concerning them by F. 

 Smith, as recorded in a letter from H. Woodward). 

 Geologist, 4 : 39-40, /g-. 8. London. 1861. 



Figures an elytron and mentions others. 



Fairmaire, Leon. See Milliere, P. 



Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, Barthelemy. Nouvelle 

 notice sur les plantes fossiles renfermees dans un 

 schiste marneux des environs de Chaumerac et de 

 Roche Sauve, departement de 1'Ardeche. Mem. 

 mus. hist, nat., 2 : 444-459, //. 15. 40. Paris. 1815. 



Gives the opinion of Latreille on a species of ' ' Polistes " figured 

 on the plate. 



Feistmantel, Karl. Die steinkohlen becken in 

 der umbegung von Radnic. Archiv. natunv. landes- 

 durchf. Bbhmen, bd. \, sect. 2, at end, pp. 1-120, //. 

 1-2. 8. Prag. 1869. 



Gives, p. 66, a brief account of the Chomle scorpions described 

 by Corda, and notices the. discovery of Palaranea borassifolia 

 without description. 



Fischer, Leopold Heinrich. Orthoptera euro- 

 paea. 4. Lipsiae. 1853. pp. 20, 454, tab. 18. 



Species fossiles, pp. 55-57, contains a bibliography of fossil 

 orthoptera and a list of the species. 



Fisher. Osmond. On the brick-pit at Lexden, 

 near Colchester. Quart, jour n. geol. soc. Land., 19: 

 393-400. 8. London. 1863. 



Under the head of Organic remains, pp. 398-400, a letter is 

 printed from T. V. Wollaston concerning Coleoptera found in 

 the pit, and deductions are drawn concerning the climate of the 

 time in which they lived. 



Fischer von Waldheim, Gotthelf. Prodromus 

 petromatognosiae animalium systematicae continens 

 bibliographiam animalium fossilium. 4. Mosquae. 

 1826. A'ouv. mem. soc. imp. nat. Mosc., \ : 301-374; 

 2 : 95-277, 447-458. 4. Moscou. 1829-32. 



Notices a few articles on fossil insects, torn. ii. pp. 219-20, 

 458. 



Fischer von Waldheim, G. Bibliographia 

 palaeonthologica animalium systematica editio al- 

 tera aucta. 8. Mosquae. 1834. t.p., pp. 8, 414. 



Contains slight additions to the preceding, with the notices on 

 PP- 305, 372- 



Fleck, Hugo. See Geinitz, H. B., Fleck, H., 

 und Hartig, E. 



Fletcher, John. A dreadful phenomenon de- 

 scribed and improved ; being a particular account 

 of the sudden stoppage of the river Severn, and of 

 the terrible desolation that happened to the birches 

 between Coalbrook Dale and Buildwas Bridge in 

 Shropshire on Thursday morning, May 27, 1773. 

 Works of John Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, I : 229- 

 246. I2. London. [1773?! 



On p. 237 " a great many [fossils] were found bearing the im- 

 pression of a flying insect, not unlike the butterfly into which 

 silk-worms are changed." 



Fliche, P. Sur les lignites quaternaires de Jar- 

 ville pres de Nancy. Comptes rendus, 80 : 1 233-1 236. 

 40. Paris. 1875. 



Records, p. 1234, seven kinds of beetles, northern species 

 affecting moist localities, p. 1236. 



Fliche, P. Faune et flore des tourbieres de la 

 champagne. Comptes rendus, 82 : 979-982. 4. Paris. 

 1876. 



Notices the occurrence, p. 979, of four species of beetles from 

 Vannes. 



Fologne, Egide. See de Borre, A. P. 



Fontaine, William Morris and White, J. C. 

 The permian or upper carboniferous flora of West 

 Virginia and S. W. Pennsylvania. 8. Harrisburg. 

 1880. Rep. progr. second geol. surv. Penn., PP, pp. 

 10, 143, map, pi. 38. 



Contains a description, p. 104, and a figure, pi. 38, figs. 5, 5*, of 

 Gerablattina balteata by S. H. S[cudder]. 



Fothergill, John. An extract of John Fother- 

 gill ... his essay upon the origin of amber. Phil, 

 trans., 43 : 21-25. 4. London. 1746. 



Mentions the occurrence in amber, of "ants, spiders, &c." 



Fric, Anton. See Fritsch, A. 



Fritsch, Anton. Palaeontologische untersuch- 

 ungen der einzelnen schichten in der bohmischen 

 kreideformation. Archiv. naturw. landesdurchf. 

 Bb'hmen, bd. I, sect. 2, pp. 181-256, //. 3. 8. Prag. 

 1869. 



Refers on p. 187 to the discovery of an elytron of a beetle, 

 and a tube of a phryganid larva in clay-schists at Kounic. 



Fritsch, A. Notiz iiber eine heuschrecke aus der 

 braunkohle von Freudenhain. Archiv. naturw. 

 landesdurchf. Bb'hmen, bd. i, sect. 2, p. 276, fig. 8. 

 Prag. 1869. 



Describes and figures Decticus umbraeevs. 



Fritsch, A. Fauna der steinkohlen formation 

 Bohmens. Archiv naturw. landesdurchf. Bb'hmen, bd. 

 2, abth. 2,th. i, pp. i-i6,pl. 1-4. 8. Prag. 1874. 



Describes Palaranea borassifoliae for the first time, and 

 gives new figures and descriptions of four previously known in- 

 sects, including the famous scorpions described by Corda. 



Fritsch, A. Fauna der gaskohle und der kalk- 

 steine der permformation Bohmens. Bd. I. heft r. 

 40. Prag. 1879. pp. 92, taf. 12. 



Contains pp. 26-31 : " Vorlaufige uebersicht der in der gas- 

 kohle und den kalksteinen der permformation in Bbhmen vorge- 

 fundenen thierreste." On p. 31 appears a list of five insects, to 

 three of which (myriapoda) names are given, from Nyran and 

 Kounova. 



Fritsch, A. v Dva novi clenovci z utvaru kame- 

 nouhelneho v Cechach. Vesmir, 9 : 241-242, figs. 

 A, B. 4. Praha. 1880. 



Popular account of interesting remains of Ephemeridae from 

 the carboniferous schists of Votvovic. 



