GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 87 



Lephelisca with Erycina virginiensis Gu6rin as designated type-species. The action so taken 

 by those authors secured however only a limited degree of acceptance. In order to secure a 

 stable name for the genus here in question, an application has recently been submitted to the 

 Commission by dos Passos (1963, Bull. zool. Norn. 20 : 313-20), asking for the designation 

 under the plenary powers of Erycina virginiensis Guerin as the type-species of Calephelis 

 Grote & Robinson. In accordance with the provisions of Article 80, this species is, in the 

 interests of stability in nomenclature, being treated as the type-species of Calephelis, pending 

 the promulgation of the Commission's decision on the application submitted. On this basis 

 Calephelis replaces Lephelisca and becomes the oldest available name for the present genus. 



A word of explanation is needed as to the authorship and date to be attributed to the name 

 Erycina virginiensis, the name of the species here treated as the type-species of the genus 

 Calephelis. This name was published by two different authors. Of these, one (as already 

 noted), was Guerin (I conographie Ins. : 489, pi. 81, fig. i), the other being Gray (in Griffith's 

 Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 15 : pi. 58, fig. 1). As published by Gray, this name unquestionably 

 ranks for priority as from 1832. The only question to be considered is therefore the date to 

 be attributed to this name as published by Guerin. The dating of the I conographie was 

 discussed by Sherborn in 1922 [Index Anim. Pars secund. : lxiii), where he noted (a) that the 

 text was issued in one block in September 1844, and (b) that without doubt proof-sheets were 

 " circulated as the text is often quoted between 1836 and 1842 ". More recently McDunnough 

 published a note showing that some of the plates — including plate 8 1 , the plate here in question 

 — were circulated still earlier, the date for plate 81 being stated to be 1831. It is very un- 

 fortunate when the dates to be attributed to name arise, as in this case, owing to lack of 

 information as to the dates on which important books, or parts of them, were published. It 

 would be most helpful if the question of the dating to be adopted for the Iconographie were to 

 be examined in the light of the whole of the information obtainable from the records of the 

 leading libraries and museums, from notes published bearing on this matter and from any 

 surviving sale-catalogues, advertisements and the like. The conclusions so reached could 

 then be submitted to the Commission, with a view to the addition of the title of the Icono- 

 graphie being added, with particulars of the dates so ascertained, to the Official List of Works 

 Approved as Available for Zoological Nomenclature. For the present, however, it is possible 

 only to rely upon such few firmly established facts as are available. On this basis Gray's 

 useage of the name Erycina virginiensis takes precedence over that of Guerin. 



CALEPHILIS Kirby, [1871], in Zool. Rec. 7 (year 1870) (Ins.) : 391 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Calephelis Grote & Robinson, 1869.) 



CALETA Fruhstorfer, [1922], in Seitz, Grossschmetl. Erde 9 : 890. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Lycaena caleta Hewitson, [1876], ///. exot. Butts 5 : [87], pi. [46], fig. 1 <$. 



CALICHARIS Oberthur, 1876, Etud. ent. 1 : 18. Type-species by selection by Hemming (1939, 

 Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 135) : Anthocharis delphine Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's 

 Suite k Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : 577. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Anthocharis delphine Boisduval is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the 

 nominal species Anthocharis antigone Boisduval, [1836] (loc. cit.. Spec. g£n. L6pid. 1 : 572). 

 As names published on the same date and in the same work, the specific names delphine 

 Boisduval and antigone Boisduval depend, for their relative precedence, under Article 24 (a) 

 of the Code, upon the choice made by the First Reviser. This choice was made by Aurivillius 

 (1898, K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm 31, No. 5 : 440), when as First Reviser, he 

 accorded precedence to the name antigone Boisduval over the name delphine Boisduval. 



CALIGO Hubner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4) : 51. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 129) : Papilio eurilochus Cramer, 

 [1775], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (3) : 53, pi. 33, fig. A. 



Hubner had a curious habit of altering the terminations of specific names listed in the 

 Verzeichniss; doing this not only when it was required in order to make an adjectival specific 



