1726. HUEBER. Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis specimen primum. Fol. Wirceburg. This work contains the first reference to fossil Lepidoptera which I have found. In his Synopsis Tabellarum, he gives on page 94:
“Tabulâ XV. Similium insectorum alatorum Papilionum videlicet diversas species;” but the plates are too rude to be of the slightest value or even to indicate the suborder to which the insects may belong.
1729. BROMELL. Lithographia Suecana. Acta Litteraria Sueciæ, II. In a section _de lapidibus insectiferis Seanicis et Gothicis_ (p. 525) he says:
“Praeter umbratiles etenim papilionum vel muscarum quasdam imagines, lapidi huic leviter sed distincte impressas, multa scarabæorum figuras, mole totaque facie imitantur;” these were found in “saxo fœtido” in “Westrogothia.”
In his enumeration of fossils he specifies further:
[528]. “9. Papilionum majorum ac minorum imagines et impressiones nitidæ, in lapide calcario communi inodoro, ubi etiam in alio fœtido conspicuæ, ex eisdem Westrogothiæ locis.”
[529]. “10. Insectorum ovula, an nymphæ seu aureliæ lapideæ? saxo fœtido nigricanti immersæ. Ex eadem paræcia karabylonga.”
[531]. “14. Papilionum minorum imagines et impressiones, in ejusdem generis saxo suillo fœtido. Ex eodem loco. Hæ itidem figura sua a papilionibus illis differre haud videntur, quarum superius Num. 9. meminimus.”
I find no later reference to these supposed Lepidoptera.
1742. SENDELIUS. Historia succinorum. Fol. Lipsiæ.
Devotes a chapter (_De Erucis_, pp. 169-171) to supposed remains of caterpillars and chrysalides in amber. Several forms are figured (pl. 5, figs. 25-28; pl. 6, figs. 1-4), of which it is not impossible that pl. 6, fig. 1, may represent a Papilionid larva; and pl. 6, fig. 4, the chrysalis of a Nymphalid; but the illustrations are wholly insufficient to assert anything of them with confidence.
1828. MARCEL DE SERRES. Note sur les Arachnides et les Insectes fossiles et spécialement sur ceux des terrains d’eau douce. Ann. Sc. Nat., XV, 98-108.
This is an extract only from the next citation.
1829. MARCEL DE SERRES. Géognosie des terrains tertiaires ou Tableau des principaux animaux invertébrês des terrains marins tertiaires du midi de la France. 16mo. Montpellier et Paris.