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1871. Kirb., Syn. Cat. 43 : follows Butler. 



1872. lb., Trans. Eat. 8oc. Lond. 1872, 115: specifies undularis as 



type. 



673. Melanocyma. 

 1857. Westw., Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. [n. s.] iv. 186 : Faunula. 

 Sole species, and therefore type. 



674. Melete. 



1832-33. Swains., Zool. 111. 79 : Lycimnia (Limnobia). Sole spe- 

 cies and designated type. 

 See Daptonoura. 



675. Melin^a. 



1816. Hiibn., Verz. 11 : Egina, Clara, Equicola, Euniae, Irene. 

 1837. Sodoffsk., Bull. Mosc. x. 80 : ignorant of Hiibner's use of it, 



propo.-es this name to supplant Melitaea. 

 1844. Doubl., List Br. Mus. 56: employs it for Egina and Clara of 



Hiibner's species, besides others. 



It lias since been used in the same sense, and Egina may be taken 

 as the type. 



676. Melit^a.* 



1807. Fabr., 111. Mag. vi. 284 : Lucina, Didyma (Cinxia), Cynthia, 



Ma turn a. 

 1816. Dalm., Vetensk. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. 57: specifies Leucippe 



(Athalia) as type, but of course erroneously. 

 1832. Curt., Brit. Ent. pi. 386: designates Euphrosyue as type. 

 1837. Sodoffsk., Bidl. Mosc. x. 80 : jii'oposes to change the name to 



Melincea (q. v.). 

 1840. AVest\v., Gen. Syn. 88: specifies Cinxia as type. 

 1872. Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. 66: says that Leucippe (Athalia) is type, 



through Dal man. 



The name, liowever, falls, because preoccupied through Melitea 

 (Per.-Les., Acal. 1809). See Lemonias. 



677. Mellicta.* 



1820. Billb., Enum. Ins. 77: Maturna, Aurinia (Artemis), Cinxia, 

 Didyma, Dictynna, Athalia, Parthenie, Lucina, and some 

 MS. species. 

 This name falls before the earlier Lemonias, Schoenis, and Cinclidia. 



678. Memphis. 



1816. Hubn., Verz. 48 : Polycarmes (Odilia), Basilia. 

 Polycarmes may be taken as type. 



