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Fossil Butterflies
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Butterflies rarely fossilize, yet a few pressed their wings into ancient stone. Samuel Scudder gathers the known specimens, describing extinct genera like Neorinopis from the rock that preserved them and setting each in its place among the living families. A curious, careful study of the most fragile creatures ever turned to stone. For the naturalist who wonders what fluttered over prehistoric meadows.
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50 chapters
- 1LETTER OF GIFT.
- 2REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE THOMPSON FUND, HARTFORD MEETING, AUGUST, 1874.
- 3FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5INTRODUCTORY.
- 6BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- 7DESCRIPTIVE.
- 8NYMPHALES—PRÆTORES—OREADES.
- 9Genus NEORINOPIS Butler.
- 10NEORINOPIS SEPULTA (Boisduval) Butler.
- 11LETHITES Scudder.
- 12LETHITES REYNESII Scudder.
- 13NYMPHALES—NAJADES—PRÆFECTI.
- 14EUGONIA Hübner.
- 15EUGONIA ATAVA (Charpentier) Scudder.
- 16PAPILIONIDÆ—DANAI—FUGACIA.
- 17MYLOTHRITES Scudder.
- 18MYLOTHRITES PLUTO (Heer) Scudder.
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