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again cited Walsingham as the author of the generic name, with the 

 same remark "ined." This repeated citation of Pseudatteria as an 

 unpubhshed name showed clearly that Meyrick did not recognize 

 his paper of 1912 as validating the publication of this genus. 



In the meantime, Walsingham (1913) had published his Pseudat- 

 teria and indicated it as a new genus. He designated the new species 

 potamites Walsingham (the only Pseudatteria species under this date) 

 as its type species. Walsingham did not mention the publication 

 of the genus Pseudatteria by MejTick (1912), although Walsing- 

 ham's paper was dated "February, 1913." It is quite clear that the 

 publication of the above three papers, two by Me3n'ick and one by 

 Walsingham, at almost the same time, gave these authors no chance 

 to quote each other in a proper way. In accordance with this, it 

 would be reasonable to reject the publication of Pseudatteria by 

 Meyrick (1912), recognizing it as unavailable because this author 

 himself attributed this name to Walsingham, declared it as being 

 unpublished, and did not mention anywhere that he was introducing 

 this name as a new taxon. For these reasons, the genus Pseudatteria 

 should become available with the date of its publication by Wal- 

 singham (1913), with potamites Walsingham as the type species of 

 this genus. A corresponding proposal to place the generic name 

 Pseudatteria Walsingham (type species: potamites Walsingham) on 

 the "Official List of Generic Names in Zoology," and the name Pseudat- 

 teria Meyrick (type species: volcanica Butler) on the "Official Index 

 of Kejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology," has been sub- 

 mitted by the present author to the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature. The purpose of this proposal is to legalize 

 the authorship of Walsingham for the genus in question. The 

 decision of the Commission cannot substantially influence the existing 

 designation of the type species of the genus Pseudatteria because 

 volcanica Butler and potamites Walsingham are conspecific. 



Key to the Pseudatteria Species 



1. Forewing with two broad, greenish-blue bands crossing wing transversely 



from costa to dorsum; a large, concolorous spot distad of these bands . . 2 

 Forewing without such bands 3 



2. Large, greenish-blue spot in distal third of forewing, extended to costa and 



touching it analoga, new species 



Large, greenish-blue spot in distal third of forewing, remote from costa and 

 dorsum cantharopa Meyrick 



3. Forewing with orange or somewhat yellow spots on dark-blue ground, or 



with such spots separated from each other by black interspaces .... 4 



Forewing with more or less numerous, black, sometimes slightly prismatic 



spots and/or streaks on white, orange or somewhat yellow ground ... 5 



