A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Staphylinidae, it Carabidae, and the rest scattered among vari- 

 ous families ; the memoir opens with a chapter of 74 pages on 

 the geological relations of the gypsum beds of Aix. 



Oustalet, . Note sur une empreinte de dip- 

 tere fossile des marnes du gypse des environs de 

 Paris. Bull. soc. pkilom. Paris, [6], 9 : 161. 8. 

 Paris. 1872. 



Not seen ; title received from the author. Bibio Chapuisi is 

 described. 



Oustalet, fi. Paleontologie. Girard, Les insectes ; 

 traite elementaire d'entomologie, I : 170-180. 8. Paris. 



1873- 



A good general account of fossil insects from the older to the 

 newer strata. 



Oustalet, . Sur quelques especes fossiles de 

 1'ordre des thysanopteres. Bull. soc. philom. Paris, 

 [6], 10 : 20-27. 8". Paris. 1873. 



Describes a new genus and three new species of Physopoda 

 from Aix. 



Oustalet, fi. Insectes de 1'ambre. Bull. soc. 

 philom. Paris, [6], 10 : 98-99. 8. Paris. 1873. 



A brief notice of various insects enclosed in a single block of 

 amber in which Vaillant had detected a reptile. The insects 

 are mentioned still more briefly in Vaillant' s paper. 



Oustalet, . Sur un hemiptere de la famille des 

 pentatomides. Bull. soc. philom. Paris, [6], n : 14-16. 

 8. Paris. [1874] 1877. 

 Describes Cydnopsis Heeri. 



Oustalet, E\ Les insectes fossiles de la France. 

 La nature, 3 : 33-36, figs. 40. Paris. 1874. 



A popular account of the tertiary insects of France, with figures 

 of Bibio Edwardsi, Calosoma Agassizi and Cyllo sepuita. 



Oustalet, fi. Observation sur la communication 

 de M. Filhol [Sur les vertebres fossiles des depots 

 de phosphate de chaux du Quercyl. Bull. soc. philom. 

 Paris, [6], 11:21. 8. Paris. '[1874] 1877. 



Analogies between the insect fauna of the oligocene of south- 

 ern France on the one hand, and that of southern N. America 

 at the present time, or of the oligocene of the Rocky Mountains 

 on the other. 



Oustalet, fi. Reclamation sur une question de 

 nomenclature. Bull, seances soc. entom. France, 1878, 

 vii:72. 8. Paris. 1878. 



Ann. soc. entom. France (5), 8, bull., 60-61. 8. 

 Paris. 1878. 



Bull, sclent, dtp. du Nord, (2), r : 105-106. 8. 

 Lille. 1878. (With notes by Giard.) 



A claim that the name of the original describer of the species 

 of Protomyia referred by Brongniart to Plecia should still re- 

 main attached to them. Giard refers to the opinion of Loew 

 regarding Heer's Protomyia. 



Oustalet, fi. See also Giard, A. 



Owen, Richard. Palaeontology, or A systematic 

 summary of extinct animals and their geological rela- 

 tions. 2d edition. 8. Edinburgh. 1861. pp. 16,463. 



The insects are briefly treated, without illustrations, on pp. 

 51-52. Nothing new is given except the expression of a doubt 

 by Waterhouse whether the indusial limestone of Auvergne is 

 to be referred to the cases of Phryganidae. 



The first edition of this work was an excerpt from Vol. 17 of 

 the Encyclopasdia Britannica (Sth ed. 1859), where the article 

 occupied pp. 91-176, and the insects, in nearly the same words 

 as in the later edition, occurred on pp. 102-103. 



Packard, Alpheus Spring. Guide to the study 

 of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and bene- 

 ficial to crops ; for the use of colleges, farm-schools 

 and agriculturalists ; with eleven plates and six hun- 

 dred and fifty wood-cuts. 8. Salem. 1869 [1868-69]. 

 pp. 8, 702, pi. ii. 



Has a section on Geological distribution, pp. 77-81. with a 

 plate (i) in the introduction, besides treating of the fossil species 

 in the body of the work ; especially in the Neuroptera, where pp. 

 582-584 are given to a discussion of Eugereon, with a figure (572 ) 

 and quotations from opinions expressed by Hagen and Ger- 



staecker in letters from the former. In the third edition (1872) 

 an appendix is added, in which, pp. 710-711, a description and 

 figure are given of Paolia. A figure of Arthroiycosa is added in 

 the fourth edition (1874) The preface to sixth edition O S 7*) con- 

 tains on its second page a paragraph on the foasil insects pub- 

 lished in America since the previous edition [furnished by S. H. 

 Scudder]. 



Packard, A. S. [On insect-remains occurring in 

 nodules . . . north of Turner's Falls.] Bull. Essex 

 inst., 3 : 1-2. 8. Salem. 1871. 



Considers Palephemera mediaeva an aquatic coleopterous in- 

 sect "belonging perhaps near the family Heteroceridae." 



Packard, A. S. Our common insects ; a popular 

 account of the insects of our fields, forests, gardens 

 and houses ; illustrated with four plates and 268 

 woodcuts. 1 6. Salem. 1873. 



Contains a chapter (xiii) entitled Hints on the ancestry of 

 insects, in which, and especially on pp. 157-159, the geological 

 question is brietiy discussed. 



Parkinson, James. Organic remains of a former 

 world; an examination of the mineralized remains 

 of the vegetables and animals of the antediluvian 

 world ; generally termed extraneous fossils. 2d edi- 

 tion. 3 vols. 4. London. 1833. Vol. i, pp. 12,460, 

 (4), front., pi. i, 9; vol. 2, pp. 14, 286, (26), front., 

 pi. 19; vol. 3, pp. 12 [10], 467, (20), front., pi. 22. 



Entomolithi are treated in vol. 3, pp. 265-267, and pi. 17, figs. 

 2-6 ; larvae of Odonata from Pappenheim being figured and some 

 indistinguishable. insects copied from Luidius. 



Peach, Charles William. An account of the 

 foss.il organic remains found on the south-east coast 

 of Cornwall, and in other parts of that county. 

 Trans, roy. geol. soc. Cornwall, 6: 12-23. 8. Pen- 

 zance. 1846. 



Mentions the discovery of elytra of beetles in alluvial matter 

 lying about the roots of trees resting on clay at Port Mellin, 

 p. 23- 



Peach, C. W. On the fossiliferous strata of part 

 of the south-east coast of Cornwall. Trans, roy. geol. 

 soc. Cornwall, j : 57-62, //. 3-4. 8. Penzance. 1865. 



Mentions, p. 62. the occurrence of elytra of beetles in similar 

 situations as the preceding at Ready Money. 



Peale, A. C. Report on the geology of the Green 

 River district. Ann. rep. U.S. geol. surv. terr., 1877, 

 511-646, pi. 47-76. 8. Washington. 1879. 



Contains, p. 535, notice of the discovery of insects on Twin 

 Creek, Wyoming Terr. ; and pp. 633-639 a reprint of Scudder's 

 description of Indusia calculosa from Horse Creek Valley, Wy- 

 oming ; see also p. 528. 



Phillips, John. The neighborhood of Oxford, 

 and its geology. Oxford essays, 1855 : 192-212. 8. 

 London. 1855. 



A paragraph, p. 204, is given to the insects of the Stonesfield 

 slate. 



Phillips, J. Oxford fossils. No. 2. Geol. mag., 

 3- 97~99>X- 6. 8. London. 1866. 



Describes and figures Libelhila Westwoodii from the Stones- 

 field slate, and compares it with Aeschna Brodiei from the lias. 



Phillips, J. Geology of Oxford and the val- 

 ley of the Thames. 8. Oxford. 1871. pp. 24, 523, 

 pf. 17. 



Contains, p. 123, fossils of the liassic period ; pp. 173-174, 

 fossils of the Stonesfield beds, in both of which insects are re- 

 ferred to. 



Phillips, J. See Conybeare, W. D., a nd Phil- 

 lips, W., and Woodward, H. et al. 



Pictet-Baraban, afterwards Pictet-de la Rive, 



Fran9ois Jules (q. v.). 



Pictet-de la Rive, Fra^ois Jules. Resultat de 

 ses recherches sur les insectes fossiles .de 1'ordre des 

 nevropteres contenus dans 1'ambre. Actes soc. helv. 

 sc. nat., 30 : 69-70. 8. Geneve. 1845. 



All specifically distinct from existing forms, but with one ex- 

 ception of existing genera. 



