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I.—Notes on Fossil Insect-Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The GeologicalMagazine is fortunate in having received within its pages many contributions relative to the discovery of Fossil Insect-remains, both in this country and abroad.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1873

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page 1 note 1 “Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames,” by John Phillips, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford, Royal 8vo. pp. 524. Oxford, 1871. Clarendon Press. In this work are also figured Buprestidium: Curculionidium: Hemerobioides giganteus, and Libellula Westwoodii: Blapsidium Egertoni, Melolonthidium and Prionideum are recorded as occurring at Eyeford and Stonesfield (p. 174). Brodie's Fossil Insects (published in 1845) contains notices of 9 Coleoptera, 3 Orthoptera, 3 Hemiptera, etc., 8 Neuroptera, 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 Brodie's Fossil Insects), and other localities.