THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 43.] JULY, MDCCCLXVII. [Price 6d. 



Notes on the Nomenclature of the European Satyridx, S^c. 

 By W. F. KiRBY, Esq., Assistant in the Museum of the 

 Royal Dublin Society. 



Having devoted some attention to an article in the June 

 number of the ' Entomologist,' entitled " Remarks on the 

 Nomenclature of the European Genera of Satyride Lepi- 

 doptera," by Mr. A. G. Butler, a few words on the appli- 

 cation of the law of priority, with special reference to some 

 points therein noticed, may not be out of place. The ' Rules 

 for Zoological Nomenclature,' published by the British Asso- 

 ciation, being the standard usually acknowledged by natu- 

 ralists, I propose to test Mr. Butler's alterations by these. 



Erebia Epiphron, /i«06"/t. — This name, as noted by Mr. 

 Butler, must stand in place of E. Cassiope, Fabr., if the two 

 insects are only varieties of the same species. This alteration, 

 as well as the substitution of E. Medea, W. V., for E. blan- 

 dina, Fabr., has already been sanctioned by Mr. Doubleday, 

 in his Supplementary List of British Lepidoptera. 



E. Stubbendorfii, Menelr. — This name must be dropped 

 in favour of E. Theano, Tauscher. It is not identical v\iih 

 E. Kefersteinii, Eversm. Moscow Bulletin, 18-5 L 1 have not 

 had an opportunity of consulting Herrich-Schaffer's figures, 

 617, 618, and therefore cannot say if they refer to Evers- 

 maun's species (as Staudinger states) or not. 1 suspect, how- 

 ever, that they are of very recent date. 



E, Tisi phone, £■*;/?., and E. glacialis, Esp. — Both these 

 forms are noted by Staudinger as varieties of E. Alecto, 

 Hilbn. 



Hipparchia Hermione, Linn. — Without entering into the 

 question whether the twelfth edition of the * Systema Naturte' 

 is to be taken as the earliest standard of nomenclature, as 

 recommended by the British Association, we are still fuliy 

 justified in rejecting Scopoli's wholly forgotten name (li. 



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