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and on the same date, the relative precedence to be accorded to them depends on the choice 

 made by the First Reviser. The First Reviser was Leech who in [1892] (Bulls China Japan 

 Corea (1) (Text-Pt 2) : 155) gave precedence to the specific name nycteis Menetries over the 

 name cassiope Men6tries. 



ATHYRTIS Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 413. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Athyrtis mechanitis Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, ibid. 6 : 414. 



ATHYSANOTA Karsch, 1895, Ent. Nachr. 21 : 297. Type-species by monotypy : Lycaena 

 ornata Mabille, 1890, Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (6) 10 : 24, pi. 2, fig. 6. 



The binomen Lycaena ornata has been published as a new name for various taxa on a 

 number of occasions, but this appears to be the earliest of these homonyms and therefore to be 

 an available name nomenclatonally. It is accordingly here treated as the valid name for the 

 present species. 



ATLANTEA Higgins, [1959], Lepid. News 12 (5/6) : 162. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Synchloe perezi Herrich-Schaeffer, 1862, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 16 : 



119. 



The text containing this generic name is dated 1958 but the wrapper (folder) in which the 

 Part was published is dated " 30 April 1959 ". 



ATLIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (5) : 80. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 124) : Papilio halesus Cramer, 

 [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9) : 3, pi. 98, figs B, C. 



The name Atlides Hiibner was published on the same date and in the same work as the name 

 Brangas Hiibner, [1819], and in consequence the relative precedence to be accorded to these 

 names depends on the choice of the First Reviser. Of these nam* is in current use, 



whereas Brangas is virtually unknown. Accordingly, as no formal First Reviser choice 

 appeared to have been made, I, acting as First Reviser, accorded precedence to Atlides over 

 Brangas in 1964 (Annot. lep. (3) : 82). 



ATROPHANEURA Reakirt, [1865], Proc. ent. Soc. Philad. 3 : 446. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Atrophaneura erythrosoma Reakirt, [1865!, ibid. 3 : 447. 



Corbet has pointed out (1943, Entomologist 76 : 206) that, although the volume containing 

 the name Atrophaneura is dated " 1864 ". it contains an account of a meeting held on 12th 

 December 1864 and cannot therefore have been published before 1865. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Atrophaneura erythrosoma Reakirt is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented 

 by the older-established nominal species Papilio semperi Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1861 (Wien. 

 ent. Monats. 5 : 296). 



The type-species of the present genus and Papilio diphilus Esper, [1793], the type-species of 

 Pachliopta Reakirt, [1865], are commonly treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as 

 being congeneric with one another ; and, as the names Atrophaneura and Pachliopta were 

 published in the same work and on the same date, the relative precedence to be accorded 

 to them depends on the choice made by the First Reviser. When in 1943 (loc. cil. 76 : 206) 

 Corbet, on the discovery that the name Polydorus Swainson, 1833, was invalid under the Law 

 of Homonymy, introduced the name Atrophaneura Reakirt in its place, he mentioned at the 

 same time the name Pachliopta Reakirt, but he did not definitely accept Atrophaneura at the 

 expense of Pachliopta, though it certainly seems likely that he considered the type-species of 

 these nominal genera to be congeneric with one another. In order to clear up the position, I 

 have made (1964, Annot. lep. (3) : 84) a First Reviser's choice definitely according precedence 

 to the name Atrophaneura Reakirt over the name Pachliopta Reakirt. 



ATRYTONE Scudder, 1872, 4/A Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 77. Type-species by 

 original designation : Hesperia iowa Scudder, 1869, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1 (2) : 336. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Hesperia iowa Scudder is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the 



