Fossil Butterflies

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Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Fossil Butterflies

Fossil Butterflies

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DESCRIPTIVE

NYMPHALES—PRÆTORES—OREADES

Genus NEORINOPIS Butler

NEORINOPIS SEPULTA (Boisduval) Butler

LETHITES Scudder

LETHITES REYNESII Scudder

NYMPHALES—NAJADES—PRÆFECTI

EUGONIA Hübner

EUGONIA ATAVA (Charpentier) Scudder

PAPILIONIDÆ—DANAI—FUGACIA

MYLOTHRITES Scudder

MYLOTHRITES PLUTO (Heer) Scudder

COLIATES Scudder

COLIATES PROSERPINA Scudder

PAPILIONIDÆ—DANAI—VORACIA

PONTIA Fabricius

PONTIA FREYERI (Heer) Scudder

PAPILIONIDÆ—PAPILIONIDES—PARNASSII

THAITES Heer, MS

THAITES RUMINIANA Heer MS

URBICOLÆ—HESPERIDES

THANATITES Scudder

THANATITES VETULA (Heyden) Scudder

URBICOLÆ—ASTYCI

PAMPHILITES Scudder

PAMPHILITES ABDITA Scudder

COMPARATIVE AGE OF FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES

PROBABLE FOOD-PLANTS OF TERTIARY CATERPILLARS

PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTERFLIES MOST NEARLY ALLIED TO FOSSIL SPECIES

BUTTERFLIES OF THE LIGURIAN (Upper Eocene)

BUTTERFLIES OF THE AQUITANIAN (Lower Miocene)

BUTTERFLIES OF THE MAYENCIAN (Middle Miocene)

GENERAL RESUME, WITH NOTICES OF UNDETERMINED FORMS

TABULAR VIEW OF FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES

NOTICE OF INSECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ERRONEOUSLY REFERRED IN RECENT TIMES TO BUTTERFLIES

1. Cyllonium Boisduvalianum Westw., and C. Hewitsonianum Westw

2. Palæontina oolitica Butl

FOOTNOTES

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES

Plate I

Plate II

Plate III

LIST OF WOOD CUTS

ERRATA

Отрывок из книги

Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I

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Gives a similar but fuller account of the butterflies described by Heer and a brief notice of others.

1856. Giebel. Geologische Uebersicht der vorweltlichen Insekten. Zeitschr. gesammt. Naturw., VIII, pp. 174–188.

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