PSYCHE 
VOL. 52 
Mar.- June, 1945 
Nos. 1-2 
NOTES ON NEOTROPICAL PLEBEJINyE 
(LYQENIDyE, LEPIDOPTERA) 1 
By V. Nabokov 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 
In a recent paper 2 I briefly listed the only Plebejince ( s.s .) 
found in the Nearctic region. Subsequently I decided to see 
whether any true Plebejince occurred in the neotropics besides 
the three or four species the genitalia of which I had happened 
to examine before. The results proved so unexpected and in- 
teresting that it seems worth while to publish the present paper 
despite its rather superficial and incomplete nature. 
In order to cover more ground (and, in some cases, owing to 
the scantiness of the material at hand) only a very small num- 
ber of specimens (about 120 in all) have been dissected and 
drawn (after a few Catochrysopince and representatives of 
other subfamilies had been weeded out by the same method). 
Some of these figures are appended. All the specimens, except 
a few supplied with his usual kindness by Mr. W. P. Comstock 
of the American Museum of Natural History, are preserved in 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. 
A rather drastic rearrangement of the species and groups was 
an inevitable consequence of this investigation. Seven new 
genera have been introduced; two have been revised and re- 
stricted. In several cases it was found that forms had been 
assigned by recent authors to the wrong species. Some syno- 
1 Published with the aid of a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
2 1944 [Feb. 1945] Psyche 51: 104-138, where the following errata should be 
corrected: line 12, p. 105, instead of “ hanno Stoll” read “ceraunus Fabricius 
( nom . spec.)” ; line 28, p. 107, instead of the misprint “ calliopsis” read “calliopis ” ; 
p. Ill, in the sentence beginning “A complete sequence . . .” transpose “palearctic” 
and “nearctic.” 
