THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 42.] JUNE, MDCCCLXVII. [Price 6d. 



Remarks on the Nomenclature of the European Genera of 

 Satyride Lepidoptera. By A. G. Butler, Esq., F.Z.S. 



I HAVE for some time past been carefully working out the 

 synonymy of the Satyridae, with a view to making a complete 

 catalogue of that family ; and having discovered, by a rigid 

 comparison of all the dates, descriptions and figures, that 

 certain names of species and genera have, for some time, 

 been displacing the original ones, I have been compelled, 

 though of course with great compunction, to attempt to set 

 matters a little to rights. 



It seems that if the law of priority, counting from the date 

 of the introduction of the binomial system, is to be strictly 

 observed as the standard by which to fix the name of a 

 species, whether the original title be popular or not, it ought 

 to be accepted by all candid Entomologists as representing 

 *' the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." 



I am well aware of the fact that some ^ew names have 

 been rejected on the score of their having been published 

 before the appearance of the twelfth edition of the ' Systema 

 Naturae ;' but since the said names were applied after the^r^^ 

 introduction of the system, and are undoubtedly true binomial 

 titles, I can see no sufficient reason why they should not be 

 respected, notwithstanding their rejection by Linneus. 



The more important corrections which I propose to make 

 are as follows : — 



Genus Erebia, Dalman (1816). 

 Section Oreina, Westwood (1840). 



1. (Oreina) Epiphron, Knoch, Beitr. 3, tab. vi. fig. 1 (1781 

 —83). 

 nee Cassiope, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Pt. 2, p. 42, N. 417 

 ' (1787). 



I believe that this is already acknowledged by working 

 Entomologists. 



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