Fossil Butterflies / Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.

by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

1856. Heer. Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence. Vierteljahrsschr. naturf. Gesellsch. Zurich, I, 1-40.

Simply mentions in his introductory remarks the occurrence of Neorinopis sepulta at Aix, and says that most of the insects from this locality present a Mediterranean aspect.

1858. Heer. Ueber die Insectfauna von Radoboj. Bericht 32e Versamml. Deutsch. Naturf., 118-121.

A cursory review of Radoboj insects, mentioning the rarity of Lepidoptera, and specifying Eugonia atava (Vanessa attarina) and Mylothrites Pluto (Vanessa Pluto). He remarks that the former resembles V. cardui and probably fed on thistles, although these had not yet been found in a fossil condition in that locality; and that the latter was nearly allied to Papilio Hadena.

1859. Heyden. Fossile Insecten aus der Rheinischen Braunkohle. Dunk. u. Mey. Palæontogr., VIII, 1-15, Taf. 1-2.

Contains pp. 12-13, Taf. I, fig. 10, description and figure of Thanatites vetula (Vanessa vetula).

1860. Heer. Untersuchungen über das Klima und die Vegetations Verhältnisse des Tertiärlandes. 4to. Winterthur.

Refers to some of the fossil butterflies described from Radoboj and Aix.

1861. Heer. Recherches sur le climat et la Végétation du pays tertiaires; traduction de Gaudin. 4to. Winterthur.