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AMMIRALIS Rennie, 1832, Conspectus Butts. Moths : 10. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Papilio atalanta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 478. 



The name Ammiralis Rennie is invalid as a junior objective synonym of Vanessa Fabricius, 

 1807, of which the same species is the type-species. 



AMNOSIA Doubleday, 1849, Gen. diurn. hep. (2) : pi. 51, fig. 4. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Amnosia decora Doubleday, 1849, ibid. (2) : pi. 51, fig. 4. 



The text relating to this generic name was not published until after Doubleday's death, 

 appearing in [1850] in Westwood's continuation (ibid. (2) : 259). 



The name Amnosia first appeared in print in 1844 in Doubleday's List. Spec. lep. Ins. 

 Brit. Mus. 1 : 88, but it aquired no status in nomenclature by reason of being so published, for 

 Doubleday provided it with no diagnosis and included no established nominal species in it, 

 the only specific name cited (decora) being at that time a manuscript name. 



AMOENA Stichel, [1909], in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 1 : 156 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Aemona Hewitson, [1868]). 



AMPHICHLORA Felder (C), 1861, Nova Acta Leop. Carol. 28 (No. 3) : 19. Type-species by 

 selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Set., Boston 10 : 109) : Papilio feronia 

 Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 473. 



AMPHIDECTA Butler, 1867, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 20 : 404. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Amphidecta pignerator Butler, 1867, ibid. (3) 20 : 405, pi. 9, fig. 11. 



AMPHIDEMA Felder (C), 1861, Nova Acta Akad. Caes. Leopold. 28 (No. 3) : 27. Type- 

 species by monotypy : Diadema beckeri Herrich-Schaeffer, [1853], Samml. aussereurop. 

 Schmett. (2) : [19], fig. 8 ; ibid. (2) : 54. 



AMPHIRENE Doubleday, 1844, List. Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1 : 86. Type-species by 

 selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : no) : Vanessa epaphus 

 Latreille, [181 1], in Humboldt & Bonpland, Voy. Rig. equinox. Nouv. Continent, Pt II 

 (Obs. Zool.) 2 (No. 2) : 74, pi. 35, figs 3, 4. 



AMPHIRENE Boisduval, 1870, Consid. Lipid. Guatemala : 43. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Vanessa epaphus Latreille, [181 1], in Humboldt & Bonpland, Voy. Rig. equinox. Nouv. 

 Continent, Pt II (Obs. Zool.). 2 (No. 2) : 74, pi. 35, figs 3, 4. 



The name Amphirene was originally devised by Boisduval and it was as a manuscript name 

 of Boisduval's that it was published by Doubleday in 1844. Boisduval always ignored the 

 action of any author who (as Doubleday in this case) published a name which he himself had 

 made known in MS. and when later he published the name himself, he treated it as a new 

 name. This is what he did in this case. 



AMPHISELENIS Staudinger, [April 1888], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 

 (Th. 1) (Lief. 20) : 257. Type-species by monotypy : Lasaia chama Staudinger, [October 

 1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, ibid. Bd 1 (Th. 1) (Lief. 19) : pi. 91. 



It will be observed that in the text published six months after the plate (pi. 91) on which 

 the new species Lasaia chama had been figured, Staudinger had changed his mind as to the 

 generic affinities of that species and had decided to remove it from the genus Lasaia Bates, in 

 which it had been placed when it was first figured, and to place it in a new genus. He ex- 

 plained that Dr. Hahnel, from whom he had received the type material, had suggested that 

 this species should be removed from Lasaia Bates and placed in a new genus for which he had 

 proposed the name Amphiselenis in manuscript. Staudinger, as shown above, thereupon 

 published the name Amphiselenis, but he appears not to have been completely convinced as to 

 its necessity. 



AMPHISELENIS Rober, [1892], in Schatz, in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1, 

 Th. 2 (6) : 248. Type-species by monotypy : Lasaia chama Staudinger, [1887], in Staudinger 

 & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1, Th. 1 (Lief. 19) : pi. 91. 



Rober introduced his Amphiselenis as a " Gen. nov. " of his own. As the specialist charged 

 with the completion of this Theil of the Exot. Schmett. after Schatz's death, he must certainly 



