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Felder (R.) ( published in i860 [Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 250), in which those authors described 

 a new species under the name Nyctalemon (Alcidis) livis. Scudder was mistaken in believing 

 that this taxon was a butterfly, whereas, in fact it was described as a moth. Second, he 

 overlooked altogether the fact that the Felders had treated their new species as belonging to 

 the moth genus Nyctalemon Dalman, 1825 (K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm 1824 

 (2) : 407) and had employed the name Alcidis only as a denomination for a subgenus of the 

 genus Nyctalemon. Third, Scudder regarded the name Alcidis as a new genus-group name 

 proposed by the Felders, who however gave no sign of looking upon themselves as proposing a 

 new name. Possibly, they considered that they were using the name Alcidis Hiibner, [1823], 

 (Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (19) : 289). Scudder stated in the introduction to his paper that 

 specific names were used by him in the sense in which they had been accepted by Kirby in his 

 Syn. Cat. of 187 1. If this is what Scudder did in the present case he must have interpreted the 

 name liris as being the specific component of the name Papilio liris Godart, [1819] (Ency. 

 width. 9 (1) (Ins.) : 72), the name of an Indo-Oriental Papilionid butterfly. 



It will be seen from the foregoing particulars that neither the Felders in i860 nor Scudder in 

 1875 proposed or accepted Alcidis as the name for a genus or subgenus of butterflies. 



ALCYONEIS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 35. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1933, Entomologist 66 : 197) : Alcyoneis almane Hiibner, [1819], ibid. (3) : 35. 

 The specific name almane was introduced as a variant — presumably as an emendation, for 

 it can hardly have been regarded as a mere change in gender — of the name almana as pub- 

 lished in the combination Papilio almana Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 472). The 

 name almane Hiibner is objectively invalid, the correct specific name for the type-species of 

 this genus being almana Linnaeus, 1758. 



ALDANIA Moore, [1896], Lep. ind. 3 (26) : 46. Type-species by original designation : 

 Diadema raddei Bremer, 1861, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 3 : 467. 



ALENIA Evans, 1935, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 83 (3) : 409. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Pyrgus sandaster Trimen, 1868, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1868 : 92. 



ALERA Mabille, 1891, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 35, C.R. : lxxxiv. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Alera furcata Mabille, 1891, ibid. 35, C.R. : lxxxiv. 



ALEREMA Hayward, 1942, An. Soc. cienc. argent. 134 : 66. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Alerema aeteria Hayward, 1942, ibid. 134 : 67. 



ALES A Doubleday, 1847, List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 2 : 1. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 107) : Erycina prema Godart, 

 [1824], Ency. mtth. 9 (2) (Ins.) : 569. 



ALGIA Herrich-Schaeffer, 1864, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 18 : 125 repaged 

 offprint as Prodromus . . 1 : 27. Type-species by subsequent designation by Hemming 

 (1964, Annot. lep. (4) : 124) : Cirrochroa satyrina Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise 

 Fregatte " Novara ", Lep.-Rhop. (3) : 389. 



The nominal genus Algia Herrich-Schaeffer was established in a generic key without cited 

 nominal species. Owing to the diagnosis so provided, the name Algia became an available 

 name as from the date of being so published but lacked precision until such time as it was 

 provided by a later author with included nominal species and one of these was designated as 

 type-species. An attempt to include a nominal species was made by Herrich-Schaeffer 

 himself when in 1865 (loc. cit. 19 : 103) he cited what he called " satyrina " as belonging to this 

 genus. Unluckily, that name was at that time a manuscript name. Accordingly, the name 

 Algia Herrich-Schaeffer remained at that time without an included nominal species. The 

 name Algia was next considered in 1875 {Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 107) when 

 Scudder, after expressing the opinion that Algia had been published without a description 

 and that the name cited for the sole included species was a nomen nudum suggested that the 

 name Algia should be " dropped ". In making this suggestion, Scudder was in error, for, as 

 already shown, Algia was in fact provided with a diagnosis by Herrich-Schaeffer and so 



