2o FRANCIS HEMMING 



certain tropical genera — I did not feel that I possessed sufficient knowledge to form 

 more than a provisional conclusion. In the case of these nominal species, about all of 

 which the literature is extremely scanty, it was of very great assistance to be able to 

 study the series represented in the Museum collection and in the light of that study 

 either to confirm or modify the tentative conclusions previously reached. 



Finally, I wish to thank my family for the help given in various ways and for the 

 constant interest shown in the progress of the present work. My wife has often 

 given valuable help on such matters as logical presentation and generally on questions 

 of methodology. In the course of the preparation of the typescript of this work 

 help and advice have been given to me also by my daughters Rachel and Judith. 



VIII. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE GENERIC NAMES OF THE BUTTERFLIES 



OF THE WORLD 



ABAEIS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 97. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 61) : Papilio nicippe Cramer, 

 [1779], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (18) : 31, pi. 210, figs C, D. 



Scudder erroneously attempted in 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 99) to alter 

 the type-species of this genus to Papilio arethitsa Drury, [1773] (III. nat. Hist. 2 : index & 35). 



ABANANOTE Potts, 1943, Pan-Pac. Ent. 19 (1) : 31. Type-species by original designation : 

 Acraea abana Hewitson, [1868], ///. exot. Butts 4 : [31], pi. [18], figs 35, 36. 



ABANTIADES Fairmaire, 1894, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 38 : 395. Type-species through Section 

 (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Abantis tettensis Hopffer, 1855, Ber. Verhandl. K. 

 Preuss. Akad. Wissenscha/ten Berlin 1855 : 643. 



The name Abantiades is objectively invalid, as it was introduced quite unnecessarily as a 

 substitute for Abantis Hopffer, 1855, which is an available name not in need of replacement. 

 This name was introduced by Fairmaire in a rather peculiar way at the end of a paper on 

 African Coleoptera, in a list of generic names which he stated Professor Berg had suggested 

 should be changed. Fairmaire gave no further explanation. 



ABANTIS Hopffer, 1855, Ber. Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissenschaften Berlin 1855 : 643. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Abantis tettensis Hopffer, 1855, ibid. 1855 : 643. 



ABARATHA Moore, [1882], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 181. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pterygospidea ransonnetii Felder (R.), 1868, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 18 : 284. 



ABISARA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), i860, Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 397. Type-species by 

 selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 99) : Abisara kausambi 

 Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), i860, ibid. 4 : 397. 



ABLEPSIS Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 19, 36. Type-species by original 

 designation : Oileides vulpinus Hiibner, [1825], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [152]. 



ABRAXIMORPHA Elwes & Edwards, 1897, Trans, zool. Soc. Lond. 14 : 123. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Pterygospidea davidii Mabille, 1876, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1876 : liv. 



ABROTA Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 176. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Abrota ganga Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, ibid. (1) : 178, 

 pi. 6a, fig. 1 $. 



ACAD A Evans, 1937, Cat. afric. Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 108. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pamphila biseriata Mabille, 1893, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 37 : 54. 



ACALLOPISTES Holland, 1896, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 : 95. Type-species by original 

 designation : Erionota holocausta Mabille, 1891, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg., Bull. 35, C.R. : cxi. 



