BIBLIOGKAPHY, 



1726. HcEBER. Lithographise "Wirceburgensis specimen primum. Fol. Wirceburg. This work con- 

 tains the first reference to fossil Lepidoptera which I have found. In his Synopsis 

 Tabellarum, he gives on page 94 : 



" TaboIS XV. Similium insectoram alatorum Fapilionum videlicet diversas species ; " but the plates are 

 too mde to be of the slightest value or even to indicate the suborder to which the insects may 

 belong. 



1729. Bbouell. Litbographia Suecana. Acta Litteraria Suecise, II. In a section de lapidibus insec- 

 tiferia Seankis et Gothicis (p. 525) he says : 



" Fraeter umbratiles etenlm papilionnm vel muscarum quasdam imagines, lapldi huic leviter sed distincte 

 impressas, multa scarabseorum flgaras, mole totaque facie imitantur;" these were found In "saxo 

 foetido" in " Westrogothia. " 



In his enumeration of fossils he specifies further: 



[528]. "9. Fapilionum majomm ac minomm imagines et impressiones nitidse, in lapide calcario com- 

 munl inodoro, nbi etiam in alio foetido conspicusB, ex eisdem Westrogothiee locis." 



[529]. "10. Insectorum ovula, an nymphae sea aureliae lapidese? saxo foetido nigricanti Immersae. Ex 

 eadem partecla karabylonga." 



[6S1]. " 14. Fapilionum minorum imagines et impressiones, in ejusdem generis saxo suiUo foetido. Ex 

 eodem loco. Hse itidem figura sua a papilionibns illis differre hand videntur, quarum superius Num. 

 9. meminimus." 



I find no later reference to these supposed Lepidoptera. 



1742. Sendelius. Historia succinorum. Fol. Lipsite. 



Devotes a chapter {De Eruets, pp. 169-171) to supposed remains of caterpillars and chrysalides in amber. 

 Several forms are figured (pi. 6, figs. 25-28 ; pi. 6, figs. 1-4), of which it is not impossible that pi. 6, flg. 

 1, may represent a Fapilionid larva; and pi. 6, flg. 4, the chrysalis of a Nymphalid; but the illustra- 

 tions are wholly insufficient to assert anything of them with confidence. 



1828. Marcel de Sekkes. Note sur les Arachnides et les Insectes fossiles et specialement sur ceux 

 des terrains d'eau douce. Ann. So. Nat., XV, 98-108. 



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