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



1872. Ib., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1872, 115: specifies undularis as 



type. 



673. MELANOCYMA. 



1857. Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. [N.S.] iv. 186: Faunula. 

 Sole species, and therefore type. 



674. MELETE. 

 1832-33. Swains., Zool. 111. 79 : Lycinmia (Limnobia). Sole spe- 



cies and designated type. 

 See Daptonoura. 



675. MELIN^EA. 



1816. Hiibn., Verz. 11 : Egina, Clara, Equicola, Euniae, Irene. 

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



proposes this name to supplant Melitasa. 

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



Hiibner's species, besides others. 



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

 as the. type. 



676. MELITJEA.* 



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



Maturna. 

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



(Athalia) as type, but of course erroneously. 

 1 832. Curt., Brit. Ent. pi. 386 : designates Euphrosyne as type. 

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



Melinsea (q. v.). 



1840. Westw., Gen. 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 through Melitea 

 (Per.-Les., Acal. 1809). See Lemonias. 



677. MELLICTA.* 



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

 Didyma, Dictynna, Athalia, Parthenie, Lucina, and some 

 MS. species. 

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



678. MEMPHIS. 



1816. Hiibn., Verz. 48: Polycarmes (Odilia), Basilia. 

 Polycarmcs may be taken as type. 



