HEER INSECT FAUNA OF (ENINGEN. . 33 



trated by oligistic iron and rutile ; and such also as the numerous 

 metamorphic rocks characterized by the presence of apatite, Uke 

 those of the Zillerthal, of St. Gothard, of Lake Ilmen, and of many 

 places in the United States, and in Ceylon. 



[T. R. J.] 



The Insect Fauna of the Tertiary Formation of QIningen 

 and Radoboj in Croatia. By Dr. Oswald Heer, Professor of 

 Natural History, High School and Gymnasium, Zurich, and Di- 

 rector of the Botanic Garden. Three parts. 4to, Leipsic, 1847- 

 1853. With 40 Lithographic Plates. 



Die Insecten-Fauna der Tertiargebilde von OEningen und 

 von Radoboj in Croatien. Von Dr. Oswald Heer, Professor 

 u. s. w. 



The first part (p. 230) of this elaborate and beautifully illus- 

 trated history of the Fossil Insects of (Eningen and Radoboj ap- 

 peared in 1847. It was devoted to the history of the Coleoptera, 

 and formed the first part of the first division of the work — treating 

 of the sjiecial history of this fauna — whilst the second division will 

 embrace its general history. In this part 119 species are described and 

 figured: — 101 from (Eningen, 14 from Radoboj, 3 from Parschlug, 

 in Steyermark, and 2 from the Upper Rhine, Canton Zug. These 

 119 species belong to 79 genera (34 Families) ; the (Eningen species 

 belonging to 68 genera (33 Families). 



In the second part (p. 264), 1849, figures and descriptions of 

 38 species of Gymnognathi, 3 species of Neuroptera, 80 of Hyme- 

 noptera, 9 oi Lepidoptera, and 80 oi Diptera, in all 210 species, are 

 given. 



The third part (p. 139), lately published, contains descriptions 

 of 133 species of Rhyncota, belonging to 31 genera ; these are illus- 

 trated in 15 plates. 



It was the author's intention to have completed the sjjecial history 

 in these three parts of his work, but 183 new species of Coleoptera 

 that have come to hand will require a supplemental part. With this 

 exception, however, these three parts embrace the special history of 

 the remains of the seven orders of Insects as they occurred in this 

 Tertiary Fauna of Central Europe ; and the author may well say 

 that he has here opened out a path through the still obscure Insect 

 Kingdom of past ages ; and with good reason does he hope, that 

 hereby he may have cleared the way for further progress, and thrown 

 some new light on the darkness of the Tertiary Periods*. 



[T. R. J.] 



[* For Prof. Heer's History of Insects and Notice of tlie Fossil Ants, sec Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. 2nd Part (Translations, &c.), pp. 61 & C8.] 



