GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 73 



BALTIA Moore, 1878, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 1 : 228. Type-species by monotypy : Mesapia 

 shawii Bates, 1873, in Henderson & Hume, Lahore to Yarkand : 305. 



BANTA Evans, 1949, Cat. Hesp. Europ. Asia Austr. Brit. Mus. : 41, 414-415. Type-species 

 by original designation : Banta banta Evans, 1949, ibid. : 415. 



BAOR1S Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 165. Type-species by original designation : 

 Hesperia oceia Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred new Spec. Hesp. (2) : 31. 



BAORYNNIS Waterhouse, 1932, Austr. Zool. 7 : 201. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pamphila amalia Semper (G.), 1878, /. Mus. Godeffroy, Hamburg 14 : 183. 



BARACUS Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 162. Type-species by original designation : 

 Isoteinon vittatus Felder (C), 1862, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 12 : 480. 



BAR BARO TH EA Scudder, 1892, Bull. U.S. geol. Survey 93 : 21. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Barbarothea florissanti Scudder, 1892, ibid. 93 : 21. 



This is a fossil genus based upon material obtained from the deposits of Florissant. 



BARBARUS Crotch, 1872, Cistula ent. 1 : 60. No originally included species and no type- 

 species by subsequent designation. 



This name was mentioned by Crotch in a paper in which he discussed generic names propo- 

 sed by early authors. Among these he included the terms placed by Linnaeus (1758) between 

 generic and specific names. These latter many years later were ruled by the Commission in 

 its Opinion 124 as not having acquired the status of subgeneric names in virtue of having been 

 so published (1936, Smithson. miscell. Coll. 73 (No. 8) : 1-2 ; facsimile edition published in 

 1958, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 1 (B) : 465-466). In most of these cases Crotch provided 

 a type-species by subsequent designation ; he did not do so in the case of Barbarus, con- 

 fining himself to observing that this was " a heterogeneous group which has not since been 

 accepted ". Scudder in his work on the generic names of the butterflies published three 

 years later (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 125) mentioned Crotch's paper but 

 added that this term " does not seem to me to have ever been used, even by Linn6, in a 

 generic sense." No subsequent author has adopted Barbarus as a generic name, and it re- 

 mains therefore either a nomen nudum cited by Crotch or perhaps better as a cheironym 

 alluded to by that author. Whichever of these views is taken it, possesses no status in 

 zoological nomenclature. 



BARBICORNIS Godart, [1824], Ency. mith. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 706. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Barbicornis basilis Godart, [1824], ibid. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 706. 



BARCA de Niceville, 1902, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 14 (2) : 251. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Dejeania bicolor Oberthur, 1896, Etud. ent. 

 20 : 40, pi. 9, fig. 163 c?- 



This name was introduced as a substitute name for Dejeania Oberthur, 1S96, which is 

 invalid, as being a junior homonym of Dejeania Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 {Mini, pr&sentis 

 Acad. Roy. Sci. Inst. Fr. 2 : 33) and also of Dejeania [Blanchard], 1850 (Cat. Coll. ent. 

 Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, Coleopt. 1 : 96). 



BARISANA Moore, [1902], Lep. ind. 5 (53) : 100. Type-species by original designation : 

 Zemeros emesoides Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), i860, Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 396. 



BARONIA Salvin, 1893, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (4) : 331. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Baronia brevicornis Salvin, 1893, ibid. 1893 (4) : 331. 



BASILARCHIA Scudder, 1872, a,th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 29. Type-species 

 by original designation : Papilio astyanax Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent. : 447. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio astynax Fabricius is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older- 

 established nominal species Papilio arthemis Drury, [1773] (III. nat. Hist. 2 : index et 17, pi. 

 10, figs 3, 4). 



