THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



No. cm.— JANUARY, 1873. 



I. — Notes on Fossil Inseot-Eemains. 



THE GEOLoaiCAii Magazine is fortunate in having received within 

 its pages many contributions relative to the discovery of Fossil 

 Insect-remains, both in this country and abroad. 



The first of these appeared in Vol. III., 1866, at p. 97, from the 

 pen of that distinguished geologist and palaeontologist, Professor 

 Phillips, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., and describes the wing of a new 

 Dragon-fly under the name of Libellula Westwoodii, from the Stones- 

 field slate near Oxford, a locality rendered historical by the writings 

 of Buckland, and still more so by the recently published work of his 

 eminent successor in the Chair of Geology at Oxford.^ 



Mr. J. W. Kirkby (Geol. Mag., 1867, Vol. IV., PL XVII., Figs. 

 7 and 8, p. 388) adds a notice of the remains of two Orthopterous 

 insects from the Coal-measures near Simdeiiand ; and in the same 

 volume (at p. 385) Principal Dawson, of Montreal, records the 

 remains of five new insects from the Devonian shales, St. John's, 

 New Brunswick (see PL XVII., Figs. 1-5). 



In 1868, VoL v., pp. 172 and 216, Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, Curator 

 of the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, 

 U.S., gave a full account of eighty-seven species of insects, six of 

 which are from the Devonian, fifteen from the Carboniferous, one 

 from the Trias, and sixty-five from the Tertiaries. Ten of these 

 are Coleoptera, four Orihoptera, nine are Neuroptera, five either 

 Orthoptera or Neiiroptera, three are Hymenoptera, forty-five are 

 Diptera, six Hemiptera, while three are Lepidoptera, one doubtful 

 Carboniferous form, and two from the Tertiaries; and two are 

 Myriapoda from the Carboniferous, 



In a paper which appeared in September, 1871 (see Geol. 

 Mag., VoL VIII., PL XI., p. 385), a form of Arachnide, under 



1 "Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames," by John Phillips, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geolos^y in the University of Oxford. Royal 8vo. 

 pp. 524. Oxford, 1871. Clarendon Press. In this work are also figured JBupres- 

 tidium : Curculionidium : Hemerobioides giganteiis, and Libellula TFeshvoodii : Blap- 

 sidium Egertoin, Melolonthidiun and Prionidemn are recorded as occurring at Eyeford 

 and Stonesfield (p. 174). Brodie's Fossil Insects (published in 1845) contains notices 

 of 9 Coleoptera, 3 Orihoptera, 3 Hemiptera, etc., 8 Neiiroptera, and 1 Diptera from 

 the English Lias. The Purbeck also has yielded numerous Insect-remains, viz. : 8 

 Coleoptera, 7 Neuroptera, 3 Orthoptera, 10 Homoptera, 12 Diptera ; numerous other 

 Insect-remains have been obtained from the Gt. Oolite, Sevenhampton (see Erodie's 

 Fossil Insects), and other localities. 



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