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this genus, and is a synonyim of Satyrus Ridingsu, I have been informed. 
Oen. nevadensis has been described by Behr. 
2. Enodia, Hubner (1816). No one can po bi object to this desig- 
nation for our Æ. portlandia on any score. 
3. Minois, Hubner (1816.) This generic name has priority, and Mr. 
Scudder shows that it represents a distinct type. It cannot be objected 
to on any score. Besides wephele and alope, it includes 47. pegala, MW. 
ariane and MM. boopis. The former is a Southern species, the Papilio 
pegala of Fabr., and thought to be a possible form of JZ. alope; the two 
latter are described by Behr under Satyrus. 
Argus, Scopoli (1777). Mr. Scudder restricts Scopoli’s term to our 
species, the “ipparchia Boisduvalii of Harris, enumerated under another 
name by Scopoli. To this procedure there is no objection, provided that 
Boisduval’s types of Argus were not of those referred to the genus by 
Scopoli, which we cannot determine at the moment, when Boisduval’s 
restriction would have ee Hubner has, however, a Satyrid goes 
Arge, the type of which is 4. psyche. 
5. Megisto, Hubner (1816.) Hubner’s type is JZ cymelia, to which he 
refers Eurytus as a synonym. He includes in his genus Megisto Mr. 
Scudder’s type of Argus. There can be objection to the use of the term 
if we do not follow Mr. Butler’s Enlargement of Euptychia. 
(To be Continued.) 
NOME STON PER ABIES Ol ith) VAN i TON 
BY H. L. MOODY, MALDEN, MASS. 
It was in April of 1872, while at Plymouth, Mass., with a party of 
friends in search of the Mayflower Zpisæa repens, that i was so fortunate 
as to capture a specimen of the larva of this insect. It was quite by 
accident that it came to my hands. A friend and myself were lounging 
by the roadside, for want of better employment thrusting our fingers into 
the light sand, when with a jerk and exclamation my friend withdrew his 
hand to find this larva clinging with a most determined nip to a finger ; it 
immediately dropped to the ground, however, and so quickly buried itself 
backward as to almost escape us, but a moments lively digging revealed 
