OO FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES. 



der Tertiargebilde von CEningen," says (p. 175) : "Karg erwahnt zwar eines sehr 

 schonen (Eninger-Schmetterlings, der nach Zurich gekommen sein soil. Allein 

 hier findet sich dieser nicht und die Angabe verliert noch mehr an Werth, wenn 

 wir beriicksichtigen, dass Karg das Thier nicht selbst gesehen hat." Karg's 

 memoir in the "Denkschriften der Schwabischen Gesellschaft der Aertze und 

 Naturforscher," T. I, I have been unable to examine. 



Boisduval, in his final report upon Neorinopis sepulta, remarks that Count 

 Saporta had written him that many years previously he had sent to the Paris 

 Museum a "Polyommate fossile" from Aix. Count G. de Saporta, in reply to my 

 inquiries concerning this specimen, says that his father can give me no further 

 information concerning this specimen; nor could M. Oustalet and myself, in our 

 search through the fossil insects of the Jardin des Plantes, discover any such relic. 



In a recent number of "Nature" (No. 266), Mr. E. J. A'Court Smith writes 

 of the discovery at Gurnet Bay in the Isle of Wight, of an insect bed in which 

 were found, among other things, "a variety of flies, butterflies, and one or two 

 grasshoppers;" no further information has yet been published concerning these 

 relics, and my inquiries upon the subject have not, as yet, elicited any definite 

 response. 



NOTICE OF INSECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EEKONEOUSLY 

 REFERRED IN RECENT TIMES TO BUTTERFLIES. 



1. Cyllonium Boisdnvalianum WESTW., and C. Hewitsonianum WKSTW. 



These two insects were figured by Westwood in the Quarterly Journal of the 

 Geological Society of London for November, 1854, the former (reproduced in our 

 fig. 2) on PI. XVH, fig. 17; the latter (reproduced in our fig. 3) on PI. XYHI, 

 fig. 27. Of the former he makes the following remarks: 1 "PI. XVII, fig. 17 

 represents a number of fragments of delicate tegument, covered with minute punc- 



<Loc. cit., 387. 



