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The history of the genus Pararge and its species subsequent 

 TO the "Verz." of Hubner. 



In 1819, Latreille, " Eney. Meth.," vol. ix., divided the genus 

 Satt/rus into sections unnamed, in the fourth of which we find 

 nuffera, aeijeria, (/alat/iea, senirle, actliiopi^, etc., in fact all our British 

 Satyrids. 



Stephens, in 1827, " 111. Brit. Enfc.," vol. i., p. 53, included the 

 whole of the 20 British, actual and reputed, species of Sati/ridac in 

 the coiuprehensive genus Hipparchia, at the same time stating that it 

 was a " most heterogeneous assemblage." He subdivided the genus 

 into sections and subsections. In the section with " Eyes pubes- 

 cent," he placed aet/eria, iiief/era and ntaera. (This last was then 

 held to be a British species, but very rare.) 



In 1828, Curtis, " Brit. Ent.," fol. 205, put the whole of the 

 British Sati/ridac in the genus Hipparchia, but separated meiiera and 

 ae(jeria as a section characterised by pubescent eyes. 



Meigen, in 1829, " Sys. Bearb. Eur. Schin.," after placing all the 

 galatlwa species in Melanaipia, adopted Maiiiola, Schrank, for the 

 remainder of the Satyrids. 



Boisduval, in 1829, " Index Meth.," placed the whole of the 

 Satyrids in the genus Satijri(s. 



In 1829, " Icones," Boisduval divided up his tribe Satyrides into 

 Ari/e, Krehia, ('kinnnhas and .S'«/////(.s. Aeficria and mefjeia are in the 

 last. 



Her rich- Sehaeffer, in 1835, " Nomenclator Ent.," used Hipparchia 

 for all the European Satyrids. 



In 1840, Westwood, " Brit. Butt.," p. 15, placed both ae<]eria and 

 me.ffera in a genus which he named Lasioiinnata. In thus picking 

 out mcffera from the genus Dira of Hiibner, Westwood came in as a 

 first reviser, leaving ro.relana and the exotic species chitioi in the 

 genus Dira, while viepera became the type of the genus Lasioiinnata. 

 The following is the description of this genus : — 



" This genus is at once distinguished from all the other Hippar- 

 chiides by having the eyes thickly clothed with hairs, in addition tO' 

 which the palpi are ver}' slender, moderately clothed to the tip 

 beneath with long hairs, the terminal joint being very short ; the 

 wings, especially the posterior pair, are denticulated, and consider- 

 ably varied, the forewings with one, and the hind ones with five or 

 six eyes ; the antennje are straight, distinctly annulated with black 

 and white, and with the clubpyriform ; the mediastinal and median 

 veins are more or less swollen at the base, the anal one being simple. 

 The fore legs, although considerably smaller than the intermediate 

 ones, are yet very conspicuous ; they are of equal length in both 

 sexes, but those of the males are comparatively slender and more 

 densely clothed with long slender hairs; the tarsal portion in the 

 male is simple, but in the female it is broader and articulated with 

 several short strong spines at the tips of the joints on the underside;. 



