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875. PlTHECOPS. 



1828. Horsf., Descr. Cat. Lep. E. Ind. Co. G6 : Hylax. Sole spe- 

 cies, and therefore type. 



1847. Doubl., List Br. Mus. 57 : the same. 



1850. Steph., Cat. Brit. Lep. 18 : employs it for Argiolus. 



876. PLANEMA. 



1848. Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep. 140 : I. Lycoa, Gea (Jodutta, Car- 



mentis) ; II. Gea, Euryta (Euryta, Umbra). 

 Lycoa may be taken as the type. 



877. PLASTINGIA. 



1870. Butl., Ent. Monthl. Mag. vii. 95 : flavescens, tessellata, Calli- 



neura, extrusa. Flavescens specified as type. 



1871. Kirb., Syn. Cat. 619 : the same and others. 



878. PLEBEIUS.* 



1871. Kirb., Syn. Cat. App. 653 : proposes to use this in the place 



of Cupido (in which he places most of the blues), as hav- 

 ing been founded by Linne. Three hundred and twenty- 

 nine species are included in it. 



1872. Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. 60: says, wrongly, that Linne used this 



name in a generic sense, and that Cuvier, in 1799, fixed 

 its type as Argus. See Introductory Remarks. 



879. PLESIONEURA.* 



1862. Feld., Wien. Ent. Monatschr. vi. 29 : curvifascia. Sole spe- 

 cies, and therefore type, as stated by Butler. 



1871. Kirb., Syn. Cat. 620 : employs it for this and others. 



The name is preoccupied in Diptera (Macq. 1855). See Celsenor- 

 rhinus. 



880. POANES. 



1872. Scudd., Syst. Rev. 55 : Massasoit. Sole species and desig- 



nated type. 



881. PODALIRIUS.* 

 1832-33. Swains., Zool. 111. ii. 105 : Antiphates (Pompilius), Poda- 



lirius (Europseus). Podalirius specified as type. 

 The name being founded upon that of one of its species, it falls. It 

 is also preoccupied in Hymenoptera (Latr. 1802). See Iphiclides. 



882. POLITES. 



1872. Scudd., Syst. Rev. 57 : Peckius, Sabuleti. Peckius specified 

 as type. 



