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this genus, and is a synonym of Satyrus Ridingsii, I have been informed. 

 Ocn. nevadensis has been described by Behr. 



2. Enodia, Hubner (1816). No one can possibly object to this desig- 

 nation for our E. portlandia on any score. 



3. Minois, Hubner (1S16.) This generic name has priority, and Mr. 

 Scudder shows that it represents a distinct type. It cannot be objected 

 to on any score. Besides nephele and alope, it includes M. pegald, M. 

 ariane and M. boopis. The former is a Southern species, the Papilio 

 pegala of Fabr., and thought to be a possible form of M. alope ; the two 

 latter are described by Behr under Satyrus. 



4. Argus, Scopoli (1777). Mr. Scudder restricts Scopoli' s term to our 

 species, the Hipparchia Boisduvalii of Harris, enumerated under another 

 name by Scopoli. To this procedure there is no objection, provided that 

 BoisduvaPs types of Argus were not of those referred to the genus by 

 Scopoli, which we cannot determine at the moment, when Boisduval's 

 restriction would have priority. Hubner has, however, a Satyrid genus 

 Arge, the type of which is A. psyche. 



5. Megisto, Hubner (18 16.) Hubner's type is M. cymelia, to which he 

 refers Eurytus as a synonym. He includes in his genus Megisto Mr. 

 Scudder s type of Argus. There can be objection to the use of the term 

 if we do not follow Mr. Butler's Enlargement of Euptychia. 



(To be Continued.) 



NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE ANT LION. 



BY H. L. MOODY, MALDEN, MASS. 



It was in April of 1872, while at Plymouth, Mass., with a party of 

 friends in search of the Mayflower Epigcea repens, that I was so fortunate 

 as to capture a specimen of the larva of this insect. It was quite by 

 accident that it came to my hands. A friend and myself were lounging 

 by the roadside, for want of better employment thrusting our fingers into 

 the light sand, when with a jerk and exclamation my friend withdrew his 

 hand to find this larva clinging with a most determined nip to a finger ; it 

 immediately dropped to the ground, however, and so quickly buried itself 

 backward as to almost escape us, but a moment's lively digging revealed 



