A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



von Meyer, C. E. H. Fische und insekten der 

 braunkohle bei VVesterburg in Nassau. Neues jahrb. 

 mineral., 1851 : 677. 8. Stuttgart. 1851. 



Brief notice of the discovery of two flies. 



von Meyer, C. E. H. Mittheilung an professor 

 . Bronn. Nettes jahrb. mineral., 1852 : 465-468. 



Notices, p. 467, Heyden's Dicerca Taschei ; his discovery of 

 insect borings in wood from the brown coal ; and his statement 

 that Xylophagus antiquus is a Bibio. 



von Meyer, C. E. H. Vogel-federn und Palpipes 

 priscus von Solenhofen. Neues jahrb. mineral., 1861 : 

 561. 8. Stuttgart. 1861. 



A brief notice of seven new specimens of Palpipes. 



von Meyer, C. E. H. Zu Palpipes priscus aus 

 dem lithographischen schiefer in Bayern. Palaeon- 

 tograph., 10 : 299-304, taf. *p,figs. 1-4. 4. Cassel. 

 1863. 



A detailed description of this arachnid from several specimens. 



von Meyer, C. E. H. See Jordan, H. und 

 Meyer, (C. E.) H. 



Michelin. [Sur] un travail imprime de M. 

 Hoeminghaus, relatif a une espece fossile du genre 

 Phrygane. Ann. soc. ent. France, (2), 3, bull, ent., 

 30-31. 8. Paris. 1845. 



Miller, S. A. The caenozoic or tertiary period. 

 Journ. Cine. soc. nat. hist., 4 : 93-144. 8. Cincin- 

 nati. 1 88 1. 



Gives lists of the tertiary insects described from North 

 America. 



Miller, S. A. The American palaeozoic fossils : a 

 catalogue of the genera and species, with names of 

 authors, dates, places of publication, groups of rocks 

 in which found, and the etymology and signification 

 of the words, and an introduction devoted to the 

 stratigraphical geology of the palaeozoic rocks. 8. 

 Cincinnati. 1877. pp. 15, 253. 



Arachnida, Myriapoda and Insecta, pp. 224-226. 



Milliere, Pierre. Observations relatives a 1'em- 

 preinte d'un hemiptere fossile (with note by Signoret, 

 V., and Fairmaire, L.)- Ann. soc. ent. France, (3), 

 I : 9-1 1, pi. 3". 8. Paris. 1853. 



Describes under the name of Aphis longicaudus, an insect 

 from the "schiste marneux" of Ambe'rieux, Ain. 



Moore, Charles. On the palaeontology of the 

 middle and upper lias. Proc. Somersetsh. archaeol. 

 nat. hist, soc., 2 : 61-76. 8. Taunton. 1865-1866. 



His collection of lias insects consists of about 1000 speci- 

 mens. "The families represented at Ilminster include Libel- 

 lula, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Homoptera, Diptera and Coleop- 

 tera." 



Moore, C. On the zones of the lower lias and 

 the Avicula contorta zone. Quart, journ. geol. soc. 

 Land., 17, i : 483-516, //. 15-16. 8. London. 1861. 



On p. 513 mentions the occurrence of Carabidae at Vallis. 



Moore, C. Notes on a plant and insect bed on 

 the Rocky River, New South Wales. Quart, journ. 

 geol. soc. Land., 26 : 261-263, //. 1 8, figs. 2-1 1. 8. 

 London. 1870. 



Brief notice of the insects, about ten species of beetles, which 

 are figured. An abstract with the same title (excepting the omis- 

 sion of the word Notes) on p- 2 of same, with discussion, which 

 does not touch the insects. An abstract will also be found in 

 Phil, mag., 39: 463. 8. London. 1870. 



Morris, John. A catalogue of British fossils, 

 comprising all the genera and species hitherto de- 

 scribed : with references to their geological distribu- 

 tion and to the localities in which they have been 

 found. 8<>. London. 1843. pp. n, 222. 



Insecta, p. 69. 



Morris, J. The same. Second edition, consid- 

 erably enlarged. 8. London. 1854. pp. 8, 372. 

 Insecta, pp. 116-118. 



Morris, J. On some sections in the oolitic dis- 

 trict of Lincolnshire. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Land., 

 9, i : 317-344, //. 14. 8. London. 1853. 



Mentions the occurrence of insects on p. 324 and note. 



Morris, William. Did flowers exist during the 

 carboniferous epoch ? Mature, 20 : 404. 8. London. 

 1879. 



Notices a " Carbonaceous impress on a piece of shale from the 

 Slievardagh coal field, Tipperary " which "appears" to him "to 

 be a butterfly." % 



Mortillet, Gabriel. Description d'une nouvelle 

 espece de coleoptere fossile (Donacia Genin) trouve 

 dans les lignites de Sonnaz. Bull. soc. hist. nat.Savoie, 

 1850, p. 135. 



Les alpes, 1850, no. 5. 



Arch. sc. phys. nat., 15 : 78-79. 8. Geneve. 1850. 



Description of the species. Only the last reference seen. 



Motschoulsky, Victor. Lettre a M. Menetries. 

 tudes entom., 5 : 3-38, //. 16. Helsingfors. 1856. 



Contains, pp. 25-30, a notice of Menge's collection of amber 

 insects with descriptions, pp. 25-27, and figures (in the single 

 plate) of thirteen Coleoptera. Also, p. 34, a brief notice of 

 Heer's collection of Oemngen insects. 



Motschoulsky, V. Genres et especes d'insectes 

 publics dans differents ouvrages. Supplement au 

 vi vol. des florae societatis entomologicae rossicae. 

 8. St. Petersbourg. 1868. t. p., pp. 118. 



Contains a list, p. 103, of Insectes contenus dans le succin 

 described by the author. 



Mourlon, Michel. Geologic de la Belgique. 2v. 8. 



Not seen. The fossil insects of Belgium are treated, accord- 

 ing to de Borre, Comptes-rendus soc. ent. Belg. , (3), no. 3 , /. 38. 



Miiller, Johannes. Fossile fische. Middendorff's 

 Sibirische reise, I, i : 259-263, //. II. 4. St. Pe- 

 tersburg. 1848. 



Refers in three lines, p. 261, to the ephemerid larva found by 

 Middendorff, which is figured pi. n, fig. 7. 



Miinster, George, Graf zu. Fossile fische, sepien, 

 krebse, Monotis salinaria, saurier, algaciten von 

 Oeningen, schildkrote in lias von Altdorf, Clymenia 

 glossopteris, folliculites ; tertiar formation in Nord- 

 deutschland. Neues jahrb. mineral., 1834: 42-43. 

 8. Stuttgart. 1834. 



Mentions the reception of a beetle from Solenhofen and in- 

 sects from Oeningen. 



Miinster, G. Insekten in lias. Neues jahrb. 

 mineral., 1835 '> 333- 8. Stuttgart. 1835. 



Has discovered lias insects in the neighborhood of Brzezina. 



Miinster, G. See Germar, E. F. Beschreibung 

 einiger neuen fossile insecten (1842), where some of 

 the names are given by Miinster. 



Miinster, G. See also Cotta, B. 



Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey- On a fossil _ 

 fox found at Oeningen near Constance ; with an 

 account of the deposit in which it was imbedded. 

 Trans, geol. soc. Land., (2), 3: 277-290. //. 33-34- 

 4. London. 1832. 



The insects, pp. 286-287, pi. 34, are described by Curtis, with 

 a mention of others determined by Samouelle ; only a dozen 

 species in all are mentioned ; those figured are Odonata. 



Murchison, R. I. The silurian system, founded 

 on geological researches in the counties of Salop, 

 Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Bre- 

 con, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester 

 and Stafford ; with descriptions of the coal fields and 

 overlying formations. 4. London. 1839. pp. 32, 

 768, pi. 37. 



