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name. In the absence of any rules on this point we prefer to take 

 Plebejus Linn, as the stem for this name, forming the subfamily Plebe- 

 jiNiE, rather than follow Van Duzee's rules and base the name upon the 

 genus which replaces Lyccena. The family name remains, of course, 

 Lyc^nid^. 



Urbanus Hbn. Haplotype Papilio malvcB Linn. 



1806. Huebner, Teutamen, malvcE sole species and therefore type. 



In view of the change in the application of Hesperia set forth under 

 that genus, Urbanus takes the place of Hesperia Auct. 



Erynnis Schrank. Logotype Papilio tages Linn.' 



1801. Schrank, Fauna Boica II, I, 157. Comma, tages, mahcB and others. 

 1872. Scudder, 4th Rept. Peab. Acad. 71, cites tages as type. 

 1875. Id., Hist. Sk. 167, claims that this was idtra vires, and that comma 

 became type in 1832. 



Unless a type was cited previous to 1872 this genus must replace 

 Thanaos, and we have been unable to find such a citation. 



The removal of Hesperia from this subfamily makes it necessary to 

 establish a new name, which must be formed from one of the genera 

 just discussed. According to Van Duzee's suggestions, it should 

 become the subfamily Urbanin^. Erynnis, the oldest included genus, 

 would form the name Erynnince. It seems to us that there is little choice 

 in the matter, so we are adopting the former. 



Thymele, hitherto applied by modern writers to a neotropical genus 

 allied to Telegonus, will fall before Erynnis, as also will Thanaos. Tages 

 was designated as the type of Thymele by Westwood (1840, Gen. Syn. 88) 

 and Scudder's later actions (Hist. Sk. 282) were ultra vires. 



Hesperia Fab. Logotype Papilio comma Linn. 



1793. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Ill, (1), 258, corresponds to Linnaeus' Papiliones 



plebeji. 

 1798. Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. 592, cites only malvce in this genus. 

 1810. Latreille, Consid. Gen. 440, cites proteus, malvce and steropes as 



"types." 

 1816. Dalman, Vetensk. Akad. Handl. XXXVII, 200, cites comma as type. 

 1820-21. Swainson, Zool. 111., (1), I, 28, cites comma as type. 

 1833. Curtis, Brit. Ent. Lep. II, 442, also cites comma. 

 1870. Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. VII, 58, cites exclamationis, erroneously. 

 1872. Crotch, Cist. Ent. 1, 62, cites malvcB as type, giving Cuvier, 1798, as 



his authority. 

 1872. Scudder. 4th Rept. Peab. Acad. 73, cites malvce as type. 

 1875. Id., Hist. Sk. 187. does same. 



We have not been able to examine Cuvier's Tableau Elementaire, 

 but in 1832 (An. Kingdom XV, 594, footnote) he refers to Fabricius' 

 Ent. Syst. for "the other species," after citing malvcB as sole example of 

 Hesperia. This is rather conclusive evidence that there was no inten- 

 tion to restrict in the mind of Cuvier, even though his action in 1798 

 were admissible as a restriction. Aside from this we find nothing on 

 which to base the prevalent use of malvcB as type, and it seems that the 

 genus properly applies to the species now placed in Pamphila. West- 

 wood, in 1840, (Gen. Syn. 88) cited comma as the type of Pamphila so 



