A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL INSECTS. 



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McLachlan, R. See "Woodward, H. 



Malfatti, G. Bibliograna degli insetti fossili 

 italiani finora conosciuti. 8. Milano. 1881. t. p., 

 pp. 12. Atti soc. ital. sc. nat., 24 : 8. Milano. 

 1881. 



A valuable resume of what has been published concerning the 

 fossil insects of Italy, arranged by deposits. None are older than 

 the tertiaries. Mention is made of three or lour specimens in 

 Italian museums, not before published. 



Maravigna, C. Insectes dans 1'ambre (supra). 



Reviewed by Erichson with original notes in Ber, iviss. leist. 

 entont., 1838: 29. 8. Berlin. 1840. Arch.f, naturg., 5, ii, 

 309. 8. Berlin. 1839. [1840.] 



Maravigna, C. See Rondani, C. 



Martialis, Marcus Valerius. Epigrammata. Liber 

 4, section 32. 



Et latet et lucet Phaethontide condita gutta, 



Ut videatur apis nectare clausa suo. 

 Dignum tantorum pretium tulit ilia laborum ; 



Credibile est ipsam sic voluisse mori. 



Some writers have thought that Martial here referred to amber- 

 inclusa. 



Massalongo, A. B. P. Sopra un nuovo genere 

 di pandanee fossili della provincia Veronese. 8. 

 Verona. 1853. pp. 16 (7, [201-207]), tav. 4. Mem. 

 accad. agric. Ver., 29: 167-207, //. 1-4. 8. Verona. 

 1854. 



Refers on p. 12 (196) to the occurrence of Neuroptera, similar 

 in form and size to the living Libellula, with " alcune piccole 

 api" at Monte Bolca. The only copy I have seen is that of the 

 separate paper, in which pp. i7~end are replaced by those of the 

 academy's memoir. 



Massalongo, A. B. P. Compendium faunae et 

 florae fossilis bolcensis (supra). 



Not mentioned in Sordello's Bibl. paleont. veget. ital. (1881). 



Matheron, Philippe. Compte-rendu de la visite 

 du terrain a gypse a Aix et du volcan de Beaulieu. 

 Bull, soc.geol. France, 13 : 451-465. 8. Paris. 1842. 



The insects of the beds at Aix are referred to in general terms 

 on p. 454 and their relative position pointed out. 



Matheron, P. Recherches comparatives sur les 

 depots fluvio-lacustres tertiaires des environs de 

 Montpellier, de 1'Aude et de la Provence. 8. Mar- 

 seille. 1862. pp. io8(?). Mem. soc. emul. Marseille, 



1 : 173-280. 8. Marseille. 1861. 



Not seen ; gives, according to Oustalet, some notice of Aix 

 insects. 



Matthieu. See Fliche, P. 



Menge, A. See Douglas, J. W. et al. 



Millar, George Henry, editor. A new, complete, 

 and universal body or system of natural history ; 

 being a grand, accurate and extensive display of ani- 

 mated nature . . . written by a society of gentlemen. 

 f. London. N. D. 



Not seen ; according to Dr. Hagen the work mentions, p. 421, 

 the presence of insects in amber. 



Mourlon, M. Geologie de la Belgique (supra}. 



2 vol. 8. Bruxelles. 1880-1881. i (1880), pp. 4, 

 317; ii (1881), pp. 4, 16,392. 



Refers in three brief paragraphs (i. 125, 144) to the insects re- 

 ported from the coal by van Beneden and de Borre, and from the 

 oolite by the latter; the carboniferous species are also catalogued 

 (ii. 57) as well as larvae of insects from the wealden of Hainaut 

 (ii. 82). 



Miiller, Fritz. Facts and arguments for Darwin ; 

 with additions by the author ; translated by W. S. 

 Dallas. 16. London. 1869. pp. (8), 144. 



Argues in favor of the late acquisition of "complete" meta- 

 morphoses in insects partly from paleontologies! data, in a foot- 

 note to pp. 119-121 ; it does not occur in the original, entitled 

 Fiir Darwin. 



Munster, G. Nachtrag zu dem Aufsatze des 

 professor Germar in theil 4 heft 2 dieser zeitschrift 

 iiber die versteinerungen von Solnhofen. Teutsckl. 

 ol.darest.-.-j^-. 16. Weimar. 1828. 



Gives a list of the fossils known to him, among which, on 

 p. 579, occurs 10 arten insecten darunter 2 arten libellen. Ger- 

 mar s paper has nothing on insects. 



Munster, Sebastian. Cosmographiae uniuersalis 

 Lib. VI. in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum 

 traditionem describuntur, Omniu habitabilis orbis 

 partiu situs, propriaeq* dotes. Regionum Topo- 

 graphicae effigies. Terras ingenia, quibus sit ut tam 

 differentes & uarias specie res, & animatas & inani- 

 matas, ferat. Animalium perigrinorum naturae & 

 picturse. Nobiliorum ciuitatum icones & descrip- 

 tiones. Regnorum initia, incrementa & translationes. 

 Omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, res gestas, mu- 

 tationes : Item regum & principum genealogiae. 

 Autore Sebast. Munstero. f. Basileae. 1554. ff. 

 (12), pi. (14), pp. 1163, + i folding plate not paged. 



Liber III contains, pp. 783-784, a section De succino quod in 

 Prusia legitur, in which, p. 784, amber is said to contain " bestio- 

 lae, ut muscae, culices, apes, formicae, lacertae, &c." 



The German edition of 1 598 contains this reference on pp. 

 1145-1146, and that of 1628 (?) on p. 1297. 



Dr. Hagen has called my attention to this reference as perhaps 

 the earliest mention of insects in amber. The same reference is 

 doubtless contained in the latin edition of 1550, perhaps in the 

 German edition of 1544. See Harv. Univ. Bull., ii : 285. 



Noeggerath, Jacob. Die insecten der steinkohlen- 

 flora. Frankf. convers.-blatt, 1854: 215-216, 223. 4. 

 Frankfurt a. M. 1854. 



Kolnische zeitung, 1854. 



Not seen; quoted from Hagen's Bibliography. 



Oken, Lorenz. Einige wbrter iiber den Oeningen- 

 steinbruch. Oken's Isis, 1840 : 282-283. 4- Leipzig. 

 1840. 



Refers to its fossil insects and particularly the larvae of 

 Odonata. 



von Osten Sacken, C. R. R. New genera and 

 species of North American Tipulidae with short 

 palpi, with an attempt at a new classification of the 

 tribe. Proc. acad. nat. sc. Philad., 1859 : 197-256, 

 //. 3-4. 8. Philadelphia. 1859. 



Refers, pp. 260, 221, 251, to the relationship of Protoplasa, 

 Elephantomyia and Rhamphidia to the species of the Baltic 

 amber, and the identity of Toxorhina and Limnobiorhynchus. 



von Osten Sacken, C. R. R. Appendix to the 

 paper enitled New genera and species of North 

 American Tipulidae with short palpi, &c. Proc. 

 acad. nat. sc. PAilad., 1860 : 15-17. 8. Philadelphia. 

 1860. 



Brief remarks on the amber genera Toxorhina and Macrochile, 

 p. 17. 



von Osten Sacken, C. R. R. Monographs of 

 the Diptera of North America. Part 4. On the 

 North American Tipulidae. 8. Washington. 1869. 

 pp. n, 345, pi. 4. 



Compares the American fauna to that of the European amber 

 fauna, pp. 37-38 ; devotes a couple of paragraphs, pp. 107-109, 

 112-114, to show that the amber species referred by Loew to 

 Toxorrhina belong to Elephantomyia ; and another to the Erio- 

 cerae of the amber, pp. 251-252. 



von Osten Sacken, C. R. R. Ueber einige 

 merkwiirdigen falle der geographischen verbreitung 

 von Tipuliden. Entom. nachr., 6: 67-68. 8. Put- 

 bus. 1880. 



Abstract of a paper published in the Tageblatt of the 52** 

 Versammlung deutscher naturforscher, pp. 232-233. Contains a 

 few words about the Tipulidae of amber as compared with those 

 living in N. America. 



