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careful comparison, to which of the two closely allied species each 

 name should be referred. Wright's figures of arge, erinna and egleis 

 (Butt. W. Coast, PL XVII, 143-145) all refer to montivaga Behr, as 

 well as the figure on PL XVI, 142 ; his identifications of nearly all of 

 the Argynnids are hopelessly mixed. Nenoquis Reak. listed by Dyar 

 as a synonym has been referred by Strecker, who had the type, to the 

 European dia Linn. (Lep. Rhop. Hist. Suppl. Ill, p. 22) ; we think this 

 action is correct. 



Genus Melitaea, Fabr. 



Being forced to reject the genus Lemonias Hbn. which is a 'Ten- 

 tamen' genus and regarded at the present time by the majority of 

 workers as unpublished (c. /. Prout, Hampson, etc.) we have recent- 

 ly made a short study of the various generic names involved with a 

 view to deciding which can be used for our American forms. 



The genera available are as follows : 



Melitaea Fabr. 1807. 

 According to Scudder the type was fixed by Westwood in 1840 

 as cinxia L., Dalman's fixation in 1820 of athalia as type being errone- 

 ous as athalia was not included in the original list of species. 



Schoenis Hbn. 1818. 

 Sole species and therefore type, cinxia L. 

 The genus falls before Melitaea Fabr. 



Cinclidia Hbn. 1818. 

 Scudder specifies phoebe Wien. Verz. as type in 1875 (Buff. Bull. 

 II, 266) ; later in the same year (Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci.), fol- 

 lowing an erroneous reference by Kirby of phoebe Wien. Verz. to 

 athalia, he gives athalia as type but his text readily shows that phoebe 

 Wien. Verz. is meant under athalia. In any case his previous action 

 of designating phoebe as type will hold. 



Mellicta Bill. 1820. 

 Scudder, without specifying any type, says this will fall before 

 Lemonias, Schoenis and Cinclidia. In order to avoid any later mis- 

 understandings we specify the type as cinxia L. and Mellicta will there- 

 fore fall before Melitaea. 



Limnaecia Scud. 1872. 

 Type specified as harrisi Scud. 



