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B1BASIS Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 160. Type-species by original designation : 

 Goniloba sena Moore, [1866], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 : 778. 



The name Goniloba sena was first published by Moore in 1857 (in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. 

 Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 245), and this has sometimes been treated as the date attribu- 

 table to this name. As published in 1857, it was however a nomen nudum, the data then 

 given by Moore about this species being particulars as to the localities where the specimens 

 available to him had been captured. As shown above this nominal species was not validly 

 established with a description until the publication in 1866 of Moore's paper in the Proc. zool. 

 Soc. Lond. for 1865. 



BIBISANA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 273. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Euploea horsfieldii Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1865], in Reise Fregatte " Novara " , 

 Lep. Rhop. (2) : 333, pi. 40, fig. 4. 



BIBLA Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (B) : 113, 122. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Hesperia papyria Boisduval, [1832], in d'Urville, Voy. " Astrolabe ", Ent. 1 (Lep.) : 166. 



BIBLIA Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 410 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Byblia Hubner, [1819]). 



BIBLIS Fabricius, 1807, Mag.f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6 : 281. Type-species by absolute tautony- 

 my under Article 68(d) : Papilio biblis Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent. : 505. 



Scudder was one of numerous authors who considered that a generic name should be rejected 

 if the word of which it consisted was the same as the specific name of its type-species (Scudder, 

 1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 127). It was presumably because of Scudder's 

 action that for a long time the name Biblis fell out of use. This genus has been unlucky in the 

 name applied to it, for from 1844 (Doubleday, List. Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1 : 144) onwards 

 for many years the name Didonis Hubner, [18 19], was wrongly applied to this genus. This 

 was due no doubt to the fact that Papilio biblis Fabricius was one of the two originally 

 included species in the genus Didonis. No author selected that species to be the type-species 

 of Didonis, and, as shown above, even if any author had done so, the only effect would have 

 been to make Didonis a junior objective synonym of Biblis Fabricius. After 1875 (Proc. 

 amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 156) there was no possible justification for the continued 

 use of the name Didonis in this way, for Scudder then selected as the type-species Papilio 

 vitellia Stoll, [1781], the second of the two species placed in this genus by Hubner. This 

 species is not even a Nymphalid, being an Elymniad Satyrid. 



The name Papilio biblis Fabricius, 1775, for the type-species of this genus is invalid, it 

 being a junior homonym of Papilio biblis Drury, [1773] (III. nat. Hist. 1 : index et 9, pi. 4, 

 fig. 2 (2 figs)). It is subjectively considered on taxonomic grounds that the oldest available 

 name applicable to the present species is Papilio hyperia Cramer, [1779] (Uitl. Kapellen 

 3 (20) : 74, pi. 236, figs E, F). The specific name by which on the foregoing taxonomic view 

 the type-species of Biblis Fabricius should be known is therefore hyperia Cramer. 



BICYCLUS Kirby, 1871, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 47. Type-species through Section (i) (replace- 

 ment names) of Article 67 : Idiomorphus hewitsonii Doumet, 1861, Rev. Zool. (2) 13 : 

 175, pi. 5, fig. 2. 



Kirby introduced the name Bicyclus as a replacement for the name Idiomorphus Doumet, 

 1861, that name being invalid as a junior homonym of Idiomorphus de Chaudoir, 1846 (Bull. 

 Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 19 (4) : 515). 



BIDASPA Moore, 1882, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882 : 250. Type-species by original designation : 

 Thecla nissa Kollar, [1844], in Hiigel, Kashmir 4 (2) : 412, pi. 4, figs 3, 4. 



BID V AND A Distant, 1884, Rhop. malayana : 233, 237. Type-species by original designation : 

 Myrina thesmia Hewitson, [1863], III. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 32 ; 2 (plates) : 

 pi. 14, figs 25, 27 q\ 26 $. 



BIGAENA van Eecke, 1915, Nova Guinea, 13 (1) : 66. Type-species by monotypy : Bigaena 

 pumilio van Eecke, 191 5, ibid. 13 (1) : 66, pi. 2, fig. 9. 



