A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



Vogel, Rudolf Augustin. Practisches mineral- 

 system. Zweyte vermehrte und verbesserte ausgabe. 

 8. Leipzig.' 1776. pp. (22), 582. 



Not seen. The first edition was published in 1762, and is said 

 to contain reference to Oeningen insects. 



Vogt, Karl. Lehrbuch der geologie und petre- 

 factenkunde. Zum gebrauch bei vorlesungen und 

 zum selbstunterrichte. Zweite vermehrte und ganz- 

 lich umgearbeitete auflage. 2 v. 8. Braunschweig. 

 1854. Vol. i, pp. 29, 642, pi. 8, (6) ; vol. 2, pp. 31, 

 672, pi. (2.) 



Insects are meagrely treated, with two or three figures copied 

 from other works: i, pp. 336, 452, 638-639; ii, pp. 450, 451, 

 509-511. 



Voigt, [C. G. ?] Neueste acquisitionen des hal- 

 le'schen mineralogischen museums. Ber. naturw. ver. 

 ffarzes, 1840-46 (2^ aufl.), p. 26. 4. Wernigerode. 

 1856. 



Exhibition of four species of Blattina from Wettin and Lbbe- 

 jun, and ot an insect to be called Acridites carbonatus by Ger- 

 mar ; these were atterwards described by Germar in Miinster's 

 Beitrtige. 



Vollmar. Ueber fossile entomologie. Gistl, 

 Faunus, 2 : 56-62. 8. Miinchen. 1835. 



Of a general nature, closing with a list of fossil Coleoptera, 

 borrowed from Keferstein. 



van Volxem, Camille. Note critique sur 1'in- 

 terpretation donnee par M. de Borre d'une . . . em- 

 preinte fossile, celle du Pachytylopsis Persenairei. 

 Comtes rendus soc. ent. Belg., (2), 24 : 20-26, Jig. 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1876. 



Ann. soc. ent. Belg., 19 : 28-34. 8. Bruxelles. 

 1876. 



This posthumous note is introduced by explanatory remarks of 

 Weyers. The author concludes that it is doubtful whether the 

 fossil is the wing of an orthopteron ; that it certainly is not an 

 acridian, and has nothing in common with Pachytylus. 



Walch, J. E. I. See Knorr, G. W. 



Walchner, Fritz Hermann. Der practische na- 

 turforscher. Ein unentbehrliches hand- und hiilfs- 

 buch fur freunde der naturwissenschaften. 8. Karls- 

 ruhe. 1842-44. pp. 1198. Each part also contains 

 sep. t. p., and i f. table. 



Abtheilung III, Der petrefactolog(i843), containsa chapter on 

 Fossiler insecten, pp. 534-539, in which, especially in foot-notes, 

 the genera then known are enumerated ; nothing new is added. 



Walker, John Francis. Fossil insects in the 

 Bournemouth leaf beds. Geol. mag., 7 : 240. 8. 

 London. 1870. 



A bibliographical reference. 



"Wallace, Alfred Russel. The geographical dis- 

 tribution of animals ; with a study of the relations 

 of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past 

 changes of the earth's surface. 2 v. 8. London. 

 1876. The same: New York. 2v. 80. 1876. Vol. 

 i, pp. 24, 503, pi. 13, maps 5; vol. 2, pp. 10, 607, 

 pi. 7, maps 2. 



In a section entitled: Antiquity of the genera of insects, i. 

 pp. 166-168 (both editions), he concludes that "many of the 

 larger and more important genera of insects date back to the 

 beginning of the tertiary period, or perhaps beyond it ; but the 

 family types are far older." The section abounds in errors. 



Wallace, A. R. Colour in nature. Nature, 19 : 

 501-505. 4. London. 1879. 



Review of Grant Allen's Colour sense, in which, p. 501, he 

 contends for the probability of flowering plants and accompany- 

 ing butterflies in the carboniferous. 



Wallace, A. R. Did flowers exist during the 

 carboniferous epoch ? Nature, 19 : 582. 4. London. 

 1879. 



Maintains the lepidopterous nature of Breyeria. See also 

 McLachlan, R. 



"Wallace, A. R. See also Auoii. 



Wallerius, Johan Gottskalk. Systema mineralo- 

 gicum, quo corpora mineralia in classes, ordines, 

 genera et species suis cum varietatibus divisa descri- 

 buntur, atque observationibus, experimentis et figuris 

 aeneis illustrantur. Editio altera correcta. 2 vol. 8. 

 Vindobonae. 1778. Vol. i, pp. (i6),44S, (38), port., 

 pi. vol. 2, pp. (12), 640, (60), pi. 



154, ii. pp. 538-546: Entomolithi, contains, under the heads 

 of Typulithi and Entoma, a catalogue of the fossil insects then 

 known. 



Wanklyn, A. Description of some new species 

 of fossil ferns from the Bournemouth leaf-bed. Ann. 

 mag. nat. hist., (4), 3: 10-12, //. i. 8. London. 

 1869. 



Mentions an undetermined insect. 



"Warren, John Collins. Remarks on some fossil 

 impressions in the sandstone of Connecticut River. 

 8. Boston. 1854. pp. 54, pi. 



On p. 37 he refers some of the impressions as perhaps made 

 "by the feet and bodies of large insects." 



Waterhouse, Charles O. See Woodward, H. 



"Webster, Thomas. On the fresh-water forma- 

 tions in the Isle of Wight, with some observations 

 on the strata over the chalk in the south-east part of 

 England. Trans, geol. soc. Land., 2 : 161-254. 4. 

 London. 1814. 



Mentions, pp. 194, 206, branches of trees found in the tertiary 

 clays of Sheppey, bearing excrescences produced by insects ; and, 

 p. 230, the discovery of beetles in the tertiary deposits at New- 

 port. 



"Weiss, Christian Ernst. See Dohrn, A. 



Westwood, John Obadiah. Characters of Em- 

 bia, a genus of insects allied to the white ants (Ter- 

 mites) ; with descriptions of the species of which it 

 is composed. Trans, linn. soc. Lend., 17 : 369-374, 

 //. ii. 4. London. 1837. 



In a postscript on p. 374, two species from gum copal are no- 

 ticed. 



Westwood, J. O. On the economy of the genus 

 Palmon of Dalman with descriptions of several spe- 

 cies belonging thereto. Trans, entom. soc. Land., 4 : 

 2 56-28 1,//. 10 pars. 8. London. 1847. 



Redescribes some of Dalman's copal insects ; the living species 

 whose economy is known are parasitic on eggs of Mantidae. 



Westwood, J. O. Description of the remains 

 of fossil insects from the purbeck formation of Dor- 

 set and Wilts, and from the Stonesfield slate of 

 Gloucestershire. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Land., 9 : 

 proc. 344. 8. London. 1853. 



Unpublished ; apparently the same as the next. 



Westwood, J. O. Contributions to fossil ento- 

 mology. Quart, journ. geol. soc. Land., 10 378-396, 

 pi. 14-18. 8. London. 1854. 



About one hundred and fifty specimens are figured and fifty- 

 nine species named. They are nearly all from Purbeck strata, 

 about half of them Coleoptera, and the remainder are referred 

 mostly and about equally to Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Neu- 

 roptera. The separata have a title on reverse of p 378. 



Westwood, J. O. Sur une empreinte trouvee 

 en Angleterre dans les schistes houillers et supposee 

 pouvoir etre celle d'une chenille. Compt. rend. soc. 

 ent. Belg., (2), no. 22, pp. 6-7. 8. Bruxelles. 1876. 



Ann. soc. ent. Belg., 19, compt. rend., 4-5. 8. 

 Bruxelles. 1876. 



Translation by Weyers of a passage of Westwood's from Bro- 

 die's work on the secondary insects of England, in which a sup- 

 posed caterpillar (since recognized as a myriapod) is described. 

 Weyers adds a few comments. 



Westwood, J. O. See Brodie, P. B. ; Double- 

 day, E., and Westwood, J. O. ; and Wood- 

 ward, H. 



