ioo FRANCIS HEMMING 



same name for a quite different genus. Just as the last part of this portion of the Exot. 

 Schmett. was going to press, Rober realized that the name Pseadomaniola that he had published 

 was invalid under the Law of Homonymy as a junior homonym of Pseudomaniola Weymer, 

 1890; he remedied this in a footnote on the last page of the index, introducing there the re- 

 placement name Catargynnis here in question. 



CATARGYRIA Hiibner, [1823], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [64]. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Catargyria laura Hiibner, [1823], ibid. 2 : pi. [63], figs \, 1 $ nee figs 3, 4 [" $ "]. 



The first point to be noted is that in volume 2 of the Samml. exot. Schmett. Hiibner devoted 

 three plates to species assigned by him to genus Catargyria. These are the plates now 

 conventionally treated as bearing the plate numbers [62], [63] and [64]. The nominal species 

 figured on these plates were : Catargyria seraphina, C. druryi, and C. laura respectively. 

 When in 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 136) Scudder considered the question of 

 the species to be selected as the type-species of this genus, nothing was known as to the relative 

 dates of publication of the plates of Hiibner's Samml. exot. Schmett. and in consequence he 

 inevitably treated all three of the plates cited above as having been published on the same date. 

 On this assumption he selected as the type-species Catargyria seraphina, figured by Hiibner as 

 a new species on his plate [62]. The discovery in 1935 of the surviving Hiibner manuscripts 

 and their subsequent examination (Hemming, 1937, Hiibner 1 : : 407) showed however that the 

 plates here in question were not all published at the same time, plates [62] and [63] having been 

 published in 1825 and plate [64] in 1823. In these circumstances Scudder's selection of 

 Catargyria seraphina as the type-species was seen to have been invalid, that not having been 

 an originally included species, the plate (pi. [62]) not having been published until two years 

 after pi. [64] was issued. Further, as pi. [64], depicting Catargyria laura, was the only plate 

 published in 1823, that species is the type-species by monotypy. 



Hiibner gave four figures on his plate [64], figs 1 and 2 depicting the male (upperside and 

 underside) of Catargyria laura, figs 3 & 4 purporting to depict the corresponding surfaces of 

 the female of that species. As pointed out by Kirby in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 262), 

 the specimens treated by Hiibner as the q* and $ respectively of his nominal species Catargyria 

 laura are not conspecific with one another, the specimen which Hiibner treated as being the 

 female of the above species being, in fact, referable to the nominal species Catargyria druryi, a 

 nominal species established by Hiibner in 1825 on pi. [63] of the same work. In order to 

 provide the nominal species Catargyria laura Hiibner with a fully determinate content, it is 

 necessary that a formal lectotype-selection should be made for it. This I did in 1939 (Proc. 

 R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 134) when, as First Reviser, I selected the specimen figured by Hiibner 

 as fig. 1 (upperside) and fig. 2 (underside) on pi [64] of volume 2 of the Samml. exot. Schmett. 

 to be the lectotype of the nominal species Catargyria laura Hiibner. 



The nominal species Catargyria laura Hiibner is currently considered subjectively on taxo- 

 nomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Papilio laure Drury, [1773] (///. nat. Hist. 2 : index et 31, pi. 17, figs 5, 6). 



CATASTICTA Butler, 1870, Cistula ent. 1 : 34, 43. Type-species by original designation : 

 Euterpe nimbice Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. 

 Lepid. 1 : 409. 



CATHAEMIA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (6) : 92. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 136) : Cathaemia anthyparete 

 Hiibner, [1819], ibid. (6) : 92. 



Hiibner established the nominal species Cathaemia anthyparete, in order to provide a 

 nomenclatorially available name for the taxon of which a male was figured on the upperside 

 and underside as figs A and B on pi. 210 in vol. 3 of Cramer's Uitl. Kapellen, and a female 

 also on the upperside and underside as figs E and F on pi. 339 in volume 4 of the same work. 

 (In the text relating to these plates (loc. cit. 3 : 30-31; 4 : 95-96) the foregoing taxon was 

 erroneously cited as Papilio hyparete Linnaeus, 1758, a name which applies to an entirely 

 different species.) 



