LYCiRNJDiK. 
Ins, 157 
and Lyccenidoi of authors). Scudder admits 112 species, and characterizes 
several new genera. His corrections of synonymy are too numerous to 
admit of further notice here. 
S. H. Scudder’s new genera of Lycemidoi are analysed and severely 
criticised by S. H. Peabody ; Canad. Ent. viii. pp. 141-148. 
Lycozna clara, eunomia, and emhla, and Chrysophanus nais, attributed 
to W. H. Edwards in the Recorder’s Cat. Diurnal Lep., are fictitious 
species ; S. H. Scudder, 1. c. pp. 124 & 129. [Some of these names have 
just been taken up by W. H. & H. Edwards.] 
Miletus protogenes, Feld., ? from New Guinea, noticed by A. G. Butler, 
Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 245. 
Cigaritis massinissa, Luc.,= zohra, Donz. ; 0. Oberthur, Etudes Ent. i. 
pp. 20 & 21. He also (p. 21) describes var.yw^wr^^a, from Saida. 
Thecla aujidena, Hew., is perhaps not distinct from battus, Cram, j 
H. B. Moschler, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxvi. p. 300. T. hetulce, oviposition 
and eggs ; “ P. G.’’ Pet. Nouv. 1876, p. 22. T. fusca, Brem., is refigured 
by Oberthur as Polyommatus fuscus \ it is allied to Mere, Fabr., gordius, 
Esp., and xanthoides, Boisd. : C. Oberthur, 1. c. ii. p. 20, pi. iv. fig. 5. 
Incisalia augustus, Kirb. The two forms are separated as irioides, 
Boisd., and creesioides, Scudd. ; S. H. Scudder, 1. c. p. 104. 
Nomiades, Hiibn. S. H. Scudder revises the N. American species of 
this genus, with which he now unites Glaucopsyche. He admits the fol- 
lowing amerces, Boisd., antiacis, Boisd. (= mer^^7a, Edw.), couperi, 
Grote, (= pembina, Edw., pt., and lygdamus, Doubl., pt.), lygdamus, 
Doubl., behri, Edw. (== polyphemus, Boisd.), and a new species. Canad. 
Ent. viii. pp. 21-24. 
Lampides platissa, Herr. Sch/ilf., is distinct from L. taitensis, Boisd. ; 
A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 252. 
Cupido emolus, Godt., and sichela, Wallengr., are distinct ; C. parsimon, 
Fabr., redescribed, p. 88 ; (7. barberce, Trim., = metopMs, Wallengr., 
p. 89 : H. D. Wallengren, (Efv. Ak. Forh. xxxii. C. alexis. Scop. (= 
medon, Hiibn.), and cMron, Rott., recorded from Upper Tornea by J. 
Spangberg ; he was unable to meet with icarus, Rott., so far north, 
although it is stated to occur there, and thinks that specimens of alexis 
hove been mistaken for icarus $ ; S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 92 & 93. 
Lyccena allardi, Oberth., noticed and figured, figs. 2 a, b ; A. martinii. 
All., redescribed and figured, fig. 1, p. 22, pi. i. ; L. adonis, Hiibn., var. 
punctifera, from Lambeze, described, p. 23 : C. Oberthur, 1. c. i. A. 
argentina, Prittw., = candrena, Herr. Schaff. ; L. dyopa, H. S., = his^?a- 
tissa, L. communis, Koch, H. S., is distinct from lysimon, Hiibn. : J. D. E . 
Schmeltz, Yerh. Ver. Hamb. ii. pp. 186-188. L. lorquini, Behr, rhoea, 
Boisd., and dannia, Edw., = catalina, Reak. ; L. rapahoe, Reak., and 
dcedalus, Behr, = icariodes, Boisd., L. pheres and evius, Boisd., are pro- 
bably varieties ; L. optiletm, Koch, occurs in Alaska ; Behr & Strecker, 
Lepidoptera, p. 120. L. argiolus ; natural history. W. Buckler, Ent. M. 
M. xiii. pp. 29-32, 62, 138 : the larva will eat blackberry, W. A.. Luff. 
Ent. ix. p. 257. L. comyntas, Godt. : transformations described ; W. H, 
Edwards, Canad. Ent. viii. pp. 202-205. L. etMon, Doubl. & Hew. 
figured by W. C. Hewitsou, Ex. Butt. v. Lyccena, pi. i. fig. 5. L. gala- 
