160 THE entomologist's record. 



pariiiafiius ; I have yet to discover wherein these differ from Everes. 

 With Botliria clumneUii I need not deal in this paper. 



Cnpido, Schrank. — Tutt is quite correct in his history of Kirby's 

 selection of vn'ninuis as the type. Kirby himself confirmed it to me, 

 and admitted ic might have been better not to have selected the species 

 named, and he also recognised that, having once selected the type, he 

 had no power to alter it ; this, he said, he did not consider at the time 

 of his suggested revision. Scudder's action in selecting arion as the 

 type, after Kirby had already selected nii)iiiiiiis, is ultra vires. In this 

 genus must also be included sebrioi, B., lorquinii, H.S., huddhista, 

 Alph., standiiu/eri, Chr., alaina, Stgr., guela and prosecuf^a. 



The next elimination is ar(/iis, L., and all its allies. 



Pleheius, L. — The type was fixed by Kirby as ar</ns, L., and with 

 it must go all the well-known allies, including the lycidas group, the 

 sicverd group, the genera Aricia, Albnlina, and Latiorina. Tutt sug- 

 gested these three genera respectively for astrarche and its allies, 

 ■p/ieretcs and its allies, and orhitiibis with its allies. The neuration is 

 similar, the male armature is similar, and I do not see how they can 

 stand. O/itilcte comes next, for which Tutt has created the genus 

 Vacciniina. I cannot differentiate between this and P(d!/oiiiiiiatiis, and 

 I will refer to it again under that genus. The synonymy will there- 

 fore be: — Plebei Ks, Ij., tyTpe ari/itSfh. Albnlina, Tutt, Aricia, Tutt, 

 Latiorina, Tutt., sink before it. 



The next group is jianai/aea, H.S., cytin, Chr., panacyides, Stgr., 

 aniaophtahiia, KolL, and anthraciafi, Chr. Leaving out of consideration 

 for a moment panayaea and paiiaei/ides, the other species form a very 

 distinct group by themselves, and with baton. Berg., abcncerraiius, Bier, 

 panoptes, Hbn., and panope, Ev., are fairly distinct in their superficial 

 fades from others. The male armature and the neuration also bear 

 out the pattern, and I propose for this little assemblage the generic 

 name of Tnrania, with cytis as the type ; the neuration of veins 7 and 

 8 is peculiar, and the cell is different in shape, being very long and 

 fairly broad, whilst the veins arise from the cell well before the apex. 

 A fuller diagnosis will be given elsewhere. It will be said that baton, 

 abencerrayiis and ]tano]des are not very similar, superficially, to the cytis 

 group. This is true to a certain extent, but the two latter are some- 

 what akin in their pattern to cytis, and they form an excellent " transit" 

 through bato}L to Scolitantidcs orion. which is their nearest ally, whilst 

 the male armature points to this very definitely. 



Scolitantides, Hb, — Hubner created this genus for what we now 

 know as orion. Pall., and baton, Berg. Kirby fixed the type in 1896 

 as orio7i {battus, Hb.), I place in it, at least temporarily, in addition to 

 the type, bavins, Ev., lantyi, Obth., dirina, Fi\s. , panayaea, H.S., panae- 

 (fides, Stgr., and aryali, Elwes. The male armature of these species 

 is very closely similar, whilst that of baton, which I eliminate from 

 here and place in Tnrania, is not similar, but is close to that of cytis. 

 It would be well to say also that panaeyides is not a variety of cytis but 

 of panayaea ; the male organs prove this. 



This is a very interesting and complicated little group (the two last 

 genera dealt with) and must have a closer relationship than their 

 superficial facies would lead one to suppose. They are also very nearly 

 allied to the genus Lycaena, with arion, Hiibn., as its type. The 

 whole of this section, including the allies of the N. American Glance- 



