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p. 19 (1886); Auriv., " Nord. Fjar.," p. 13, pi. vi., fig. 9 (1888); de Nicev., " Butts. 

 Ind.," iii., p. 69 (1890); Brora., " Butts. Riv.," p. 36 (1892); Reut., " Act. F. F. 

 Fenn.," ix., pt. 6, p. 13 (1893); Riihl, "Pal. Gr.-Schmett.," pp. 260 (1893) and 

 758 (1895); Leech, "Butts. China," ii., p. 315 (1894) ; White, "Butts. Ten.," p. 

 41, pi. ii., fig, 6 (1894); Obth., "Etudes," xx., p. 24, pi. iv., fig. 51 (1896); Favre, 

 "Macr.-Lep. Val.," p. 18 (1899); Steff., "Bull. Soc. Ent. It.," xxxii., p. 335 

 (1900) ; Fleck, " Macr.-Lep. Ruman," p. 20 (1901); Staud., " Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 83 

 (1901) ; Lamb., " Pap. Belg.," p. 228 (1902); Spul., " Schmett. Eur.," p. 63, pi. 

 xvi., figs. 15 a, b(1902); Courv., "Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesell.," xi., pt. 1, p. 24 

 (1903); Day, " Lep. Chesh.," &c, p. 7 (1903); South, "Brit. Butts.," p. 161, 

 pi. cv., figs. 10-17 (1906); Spar.-Schn., " Troms. Mus. Aarsh.," xxviii., p. 112 

 (1907) ; Bingh., " Fn. Ind.," i., p. 337 (1907); Gillm., "Int. Ent. Zeits. Gub.," 

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 68 (1818), Stphns., " Illus. Haust.," iv., p. 104 (1834). Polyommatus, Godt., 

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 (1828); "Ins. Cat.," ii., p. 25 (1829); Bsdv., " Eur. Lep. Ind.," p. 12(1829); 

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 pi. ii., fig. 72, iii., 74, 75 (1839); Westw., " Syn. Gen.," p. 88 (1840); Humph, and 

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 Dbldy., " Syn. List," 1st ed., p. 1 (1850) ; Stphns., " List," 1st ed., p. 2 (1850) ; 

 2nd ed., p. 19 (1856); Stn., "Man.," i., pp. 61, 62 (1857); Hein., "Schmett. 

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 (1890); Barr. " Lep. Brit. Isl.," i., p. 73, pi. x., figs. 3-3i (1893); Tutt, "Brit. 

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The name Aricia was originally intended to cover the whole of the 

 " blues," and owes its origin to an anonymous review in the Jenaische 

 Allgemeine Literatar Zeitung of Ochsenheimer's " Die Schmetterlinge 

 Deutschlands," vol. iv., then lately published, signed only with the 

 initials " R. L."* The passage runs as follows : — 



"Genus ix. Lycaena. Here Herr O [chsenheimer] unites the genera 

 Lycaena, Thecla, and Hesperia, Fabr., certainly erroneously. We believe 

 also that we find distinctions in the larvae which might well have restrained 

 Herr O. from this combination. Family A. is our genus Aricia, Family B. 

 remains Lycaena, and Family C. is Thecla, Fabr." 



Notwithstanding the abruptness of this introduction of the name 

 Aricia, as if already well-known, this is, so far as can be traced, the 

 first published mention of it. It would appear, indeed, from the 

 review, that the writer had used many MS. names in his own collec- 

 tion, which he was now making public for the first time. No further 

 reference to the name can be found until the equally abrupt, and even 



* With regard to the identity of " R. L.," Prout writes (in litt.) : " R. L. has 



been a standing challenge to me for years past If there had been the 



slightest clue in contemporary or subsequent literature I should have seized on 

 it with avidity. Like yourself, I have worked Hagen carefully (indeed, repeatedly) 



for the initials, but without avail ; perhaps even these were fictitious 



Laspeyres, who equally ably — and anonymously — reviewed an earlier volume of 

 Ochsenheimer in the same periodical (in 1809) was deceased. It is just possible that 

 he had a son who worked with him at the last and succeeded to his collection, but 

 there is not a shred of evidence in that direction," (G. W.). 



