GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 29 



The name Aernanta Berge is invalid as a junior objective synonym of Papilio Linnaeus 

 1758. 

 AERODES Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 79. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio 

 idomeneus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 464. 



AEROMACHUS de Niceville, 1890, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 5 (3) : 214. Type-species by 

 original designation : Thanaos stigmata Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 : 694. 



AEROPETES Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 79. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 23) : Papilio tulbaghia Linnaeus, 1764, 

 Mus. Lud. Ulr. : 284. 



AETHEIUS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 109. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 104) : Papilio archytas Stoll, 

 [1787] (Aanhangs. Werk Uill. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : z-,, pi. 25, fig. 5). 



This generic name became lost in the literature some ninety years ago through an unfortu- 

 nate misunderstanding as to the family to which the type-species is referable taxonomicallv. 

 The circumstances were as follows : Hiibner established this genus for three nominal species, 

 all of them members of the family now known as the Kiodinidae. One of these nominal 

 species was Papilio archytas Stoll. This species had been treated by Kirby in 1871 [Syn 

 Cat. diurn. Lep. : 632) as being a member of the family Hesperiidae, being placed by him 

 in the genus Achlyodes Hiibner. Scudder based the systematic portion of his work on generic 

 names on the arrangement adopted four years earlier by Kirby, and he therefore also was 

 under the erroneous impression that the above spe< ies was a Hesperiid when he selected it to 

 be the type-species of Aetheius 1 liibner. Thereafter the name Aetheius virtually disappeared 

 from the literature. The name of the type-species is currently treated— and for long has been 

 treated — as a senior subjective synonym of the name Anteros axiochus Hewitson, [1867] 

 (///. exot. Butts 4 : [77], pi. [42], figs 1, 2), the name of the type-species of a genus called 

 Ourocnemis by Baker in 1887 (Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1887 : 175). 



The name Ourocnemis has been consistently employed for the nominal species discussed 

 above ever since its publication over seventy years ago, while (as already explained) the name 

 Aetheius has not been used at all. It would clearly be of no advantage if the long-neglected 

 name Aetheius Hiibner were now to be substituted for the well-established name Ourocnemis 

 Baker. In the interests of nomenclatorial stability the Commission is being asked to suppress 

 the name Aetheius Hiibner, thus preventing the disappearance of the name Ourocnemis 

 Baker. In accordance with the provisions of Article 80 the name Aetheius is here treated as 

 being invalidated, pending the publication of the decision by the Commission on the application 

 submitted. 



AETHEOPTERA Rippon, [1880], Icones Ornithopt. 1 : 4. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Ornithoptera victoriae Gray (G.R.), 1856, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., Pt 24 (no. ccci) : 



7- Pi- 39 ?• 



In addition, Rippon introduced this name as new on page 47 of Volume 1 of the above work. 

 The Icones was published in a peculiar way and the dates of publication of some of the portions 

 in which it appeared are difficult to determine. The portion containing page 47 was pub- 

 lished on some unascertainable date in the period 1 890-1 896. 



AETHILLA Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred new Spec. Hesp. (2) : 55. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Aethilla eleusinia Hewitson, 1868, ibid. : 55. 



AETHIOPANA Bethune-Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 16 : 191. Type-species by 

 original designation : Papilio honorius Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 151. 



AFRODRYAS Stoneham, 1857, Bull. Stoneham Mus., Ent. Sect., Kitale No. 70 : [1]. Type- 

 species through Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Dryas leda Boisduval, 1847, 

 in Delagorgue, Voy. A/rique austr. 2 : 588. 



AGALAIS Swinhoe, [1909], in Moore, Lep. ind. 7 (78) : 122 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Azalias Grote, 1900). 



