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



1872. lb., Trans. Ent. 8oc. Load. 1872, 115: specifies undularis as 



type. 



673. Melanocyjia. 

 1857. Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Load. [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. Illibn., Yerz. 11 : Egina, Clara, Equicola, Euniaj, Irene. 

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



proposes this name to supplant Melita3a. 

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

 Iliibner's species, besides others. 

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

 as the type. 



676. Melit^a.* 



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



Matnrna. 

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



(Athalia) as type, but of course erroneously. 

 I .S32. Curt., Brit. Ent. pi. 386 : designates Euphrosyne as type. 

 1837. Sodoffsk., Bull. Mosc. x. 80: proposes to change the name to 



Melina^a (q. v.). 

 1840. "VVestw., Gcii. Syn. 88: specifies Cinxia as type. 

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



through Dal man. 

 The name, however, falls, because preoccupied tlirough Melitea 

 (Pe'r.-Les., Acal. 1809). See Lemonias. 



677. Mellicta.* 



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

 Didyma, Dictynna, Athalia, Parthcnie, Lucina, and some 

 MS. species. 

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



678. ]MKMriiis. 

 1816. Iliibn., Yerz. 48: Polycarmes (Odilia), Basilia. 

 Polycarracs may be taken as type. 



