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115. Argus.*" 



17G4. Geoffr., Hist, cles Ins. ii. 61 : employs the term Lcs Arffus at 

 the head of a division of blues ; but it can have no weight 

 as a generic name, because it is used simply as a French 

 word, as Les Estropies is for the next division, of skippers. 



1777. Scop., Introd. 432 : employs it for more than fifty species, 

 having no common and distinctive structural bond ; they 

 are divided into four sections, all of them almost equally 

 heterogeneous in composition, each, excepting the last, 

 containing members of every family of butterflies except- 

 ing the UrbicoliB. The name must therefore be dropped, 

 and not be employed again in any sense. [The species 

 Argus was not included in the genus by Scopoli.] 

 Boisduval also uses it in his Species general, but is not followed in 

 tiiis use by many other authors. 



1816. Lam., Hist. Nat. An. sans Vert. iv. 21 : employs it for Ai'gy- 

 rognomon (vulgaris), Corydon, and others. One of the 

 synonymes of Argyrognomon is Argus, so that if it 

 be considered that the name was founded anew in this 

 instance, it must be dropped, because based on a specific 

 name. 



1832. Dup., Pap. de France, Diurn. Suppl. 388 : Battus and many 

 others. 



1832. Boisd., Icon. 49 : employs it for the blues of Europe, appending 

 his own name as authority ! 



1832. lb., Voy. Astrol. 90: Cleotas (Poeta). 



1833. lb., Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. ii. 171 : Lysimon. 

 1833-34. Boisd.-LeC, Lep. Amer. Sept. 113 : Ilanno (Filenus), etc. 

 1838-39. Krause, Faun. Thur. GO: uses it for Blues and Coppers. 

 1872. Scudd., Syst. Rev. 6: wrongly attempts to revive the name, 



calling Eurydice, one of Scopoli's species, the type. 



116. Argynnixa. 



1867. Butl., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [3J xix. 165: Hobartia, Latho- 



niella. 



1868. lb., Ent. Monthl. Mag. iv. 106: Hobartia specified as type. 



117. Argynnis. 

 1807. Fabr., 111. Mag. vi. 283: I. Paphia, Maia (Cynara), Laodice 

 (Cethosia), Aglaja; II. Liriope, Tharos (Morpheus), 

 Hermes. 



