194 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



investigations of the Harz. Haworth's Mnemon, I believe, was 

 never figured. 



In 1816, however, there is a double change in the nomen- 

 clature (of Cassiope). For the first time we have the " grass 

 Erebias " generically separated ; and Papilio cassiope becomes 

 Melampias rhodia in Huebner's " Verzeichniss bekannter Schmet- 

 terlinge," published at Augsburg. But what has become of 

 Epiphron in this work ? It is not sunk in any one of the named 

 species in the group ; and I can only conclude that No. 614, which 

 has disappeared or dropped out altogether, must have been this 

 species. The genus Melampias has for its type No. 609, Melam- 

 pias hyberbia, Hyberbius* 'Linn. Syst.'Pap. 130, Cram. 168, CD., 

 and includes the following species only : 



610. M. Mnestra, Melampus, Esp. Hiibn. 



611. -3/. Bhodia, Cassiope, Fabr. Mant. Hilbn. (why is Cassiope 

 changed ?). 



612. M. Janthe, Melamp^is, Fuesl. Hllbn. 



613. M. Pharte, Hiibn. 



614. ? 



615. M. Arete, Fab. Mant. Hiibn. 



(I have omitted the references to avoid unnecessary repetition.) 

 Fuessley's rather primitive figure (Verz. 604, f. 6), reveals an 

 unmistakable Melampus. But whether my surmise regarding 

 the missing number 614 be correct or not, Huebner at a later 

 date, viz. in the * Eur. Schmett.,' published in 1824, seems to 

 have changed his mind as to the specific identity of Epipliron 

 and Cassiope. His figures of the latter (626-627 male 628-629 

 female), are unmistakable. In his description (p. 33) he makes 

 no mention of the white pupil character of the female, though it 

 is perhaps worthy of notice that he limits the regional distri- 

 bution to the Deutschlands Alpen, while making his " Unevenly 

 Spotted Butterliy " (Ungleichpunkterter Falter) synonymous 

 with Fabricius's Papilio cassiope. So far as the name Eviphron is 

 concerned, it is sunk as a synonym in his Papilio Jaiithe, or 

 " Small Spotted Butterfly " (figs. 624-625 male, 202 female). 

 But whereas the males figured are unmistakable Melampus, 

 Fuessly, the female would seem to belong to some other species 

 — the broad band of the fore wings, rust brown with black si)ots ; 

 the small rusty rings of the hind wings also adorned with black 

 spots. His Janthe must be considered to be what we know as 



* Hijherhius is not an Krebia at all, though the description might well serve. 

 It runs : " Alls integerrimis fuscis area rufa : primoribus ocello bipupillato ; posticis 

 subtus septempunctatis, M. L. U., 257. Habitat, Cap. b. spei. D. Tulbagh," and 

 the butterfly figured in 1777 by Cramer (vol. ii, plate clxviii, figs, e, f), is the South 

 African species, still confined to Cape Colony, described in Eoland Tnmen's ' South 

 African Butterflies ' (vol. i, pp. 75-76), under the title FseiidonijvrpJia (Wallengren), 

 hyperbius, L. But until Wallengren created the genus, it remained apparently the 

 type of Huebner's Melampias, to which by strict priority it should still be referred, 

 and some other generic name found for the European members of the group, if, 

 indeed, they are to be separated from the all-inclusive Erebia. 



