1873. Butler. On Fossil Butterflies. Lepidoptera Exotica, part xv, pp. 126-8, pl. 48.
On a Fossil Butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidæ from the Stonesfield slate near Oxford; with notices of two other foreign forms from France and Croatia. Geol. Mag., X, No. ciii, 2-4, pl. 1.
Describes the genus Palæontina and species oolitica (a supposed fossil butterfly), refers Cyllo sepulta Boisd. to a new genus, Neorinopis, and Vanessa Pluto Heer, doubtfully, to Junonia, adding remarks upon the relationships of each.
1873. Anon. The oldest Fossil Butterfly in the World. The [London] Graphic. Feb. 22.
A popular account of the preceding paper, accompanied by a woodcut of Palæontina oolitica.
1873. Brodie. The Distribution and Correlation of Fossil Insects, etc. 8vo. pamph. Warwick.
Gives a brief notice (pp. 8-9) of the various fossils referred to butterflies, especially of Palæontina oolitica and Lethites Reynesii, and publishes an opinion expressed to him by me that the former was Homopterous.
1874. Scudder. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVI, 112.
Doubts the lepidopterous character of Butler’s Palæontina, and refers it, probably, to the Cicadinæ.