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692. Methona* 



1847 (Oct.). Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep. 115: Tliemisto. Sole species, 



and therefore type. 



Subsequently used by Bates and Herrich-Sehaeffer in same sense ; 



but the name must fall before Thyridia, limited at the same time to 



same group by Doubleday himself. Doubleday also, in the same year, 



established a genus Methone for an entirely different insect. 



693. Methone.* 



1847. Doubl., List Br. Mus. 4: Cecilia (Cascilia). Sole species, 

 and therefore type. 



1851. Westvv., Gen. Diurn. Lep. 422 : the same. See also Table 



vi. and 533. 

 Westwood changes tliis name to Metlionella (q.v.) because preoccu- 

 pied by Methona, q. v. (Doubl., Lep. 1847), but both bear the same 

 date. If Methona was first publislied, of course this falls, and Bates 

 and Kirby assume tliis. 



694. Methonella. 



1852. Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep. Table vi. and 533 : Cecilia. Sole 



species, and therefore type. 

 Subsequently used in same way by Bates and Kirby. See Methone. 



695. Metura. 

 1873. Butl., Lep. Exot. 155 : Rurina, irrigata, intermedia, Virgo, 

 Cipris (bracheolata, Neocypris). 

 Cipris may be taken as the type. Is the name too near Mitoura ? 



696. Microtia. 



1864-65. Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. 83: Elva. Sole species, and 

 therefore type. 

 This name is very close to Microtus (Schrank, Mara. 1789). 



697. Midea.* 

 1867. Herr.-Schaeff., Prodr. ii. 16 : Genutia. Sole species, and 

 therefore type. 

 Used also by Kirby ; but the name is founded on one of tlie syno- 

 nymes of Genutia, and therefore falls. See Anthocharis. 



698. MiGONiTis. 



1816. Hubn., Verz. 12: Thales, Accde, Erato (Erato, Crenis), 

 Burneyi, Thelxiope, Melpomene (Andremoue, Ulrica, 

 Erythrasa), Egeria (Isaja). 



