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while ceasing to be the specific name of the collective species (as it has hitherto commonly been 

 treated as being), becomes the name for the Tropical African subspecies of that species. 



COLPODES Hiibner, [1826], Verz. bekannt. Schmett., Anzeiger : 5 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Calpodes Hiibner, [18 19]). 



COMMA Rennie, 1832, Conspectus Butts Moths : 8. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio 

 c-album Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 477. 



COMPHOTIS Stichel, 1910, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 112 (A) : 176. Type-species by original 

 designation : Cricosoma irroratum Godman, 1903, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1903 : 540, 

 pi. 22, fig. 6. 



COMPSOTERIA Hewitson, 1870, Equatorial Lep. Buckley (4) : 57. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Compsoteria cascella Hewitson, 1870, ibid. (4) : 57. 



COMPSOTERA Fassl, 1918, Ent. Rundsch. 35 : 48 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of 

 Compsoteria Hewitson, 1870). 



CONDOCHATES Moore, [1898], Lep. ind. 3 (32) : 146. Type-species by original designation : 

 Limenitis opalina Kollar, [1844], in Hiigel, Kashmir 4 (2) : 427. 



When Moore established this genus, he designated a type-species but did not give a generic 

 diagnosis. He made good this deficiency a little later in the same year ([1898], loc. cit. 

 3 (33) : 187)- 



The name Condochates Moore was published on the same date (and in the same work) as the 

 name Parathyma Moore, and in consequence the relative precedence to be accorded to these 

 names depends on the choice of the First Reviser. This was made by myself in 1964 (Annot. 

 l e P- (3) : 80), when I accorded precedence to the name Condochates Moore below the name 

 Parathyma Moore. 



CONGA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 266, 294. Type-species by original 

 designation : Pamphila chydaea Butler, 1877, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1877 : 152. 



CONOGNATHUS Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6:181. Type-species 

 by monotypy : Conognathus platon Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, ibid. 6 : 181. 



CONOGNATUS Mabille, 1903, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (A) : 47 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Conognathus Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862). 



CONOPLOEA Guenee, 1865, in Vinson, Voy. Madagascar, Annexe F : 27. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Danais phaedone Godart, [1819], Ency. meth. 9 (Ins.) (1) : 183. 



Guenee gave no indication that he was aware that this was still only a manuscript name ; 

 he attributed it to Boisduval, by whom it was no doubt originally proposed. 



The name Danais phaedone Godart is invalid, being no more than an Unjustified Emendation 

 of Papilio phoedon Fabricius, 1798 (Suppl. Ent. syst. : 423). 



The generic name Conoploea Guenee is invalid as a junior objective synonym of Amaura 

 Geyer, 1837. 



CONOPLOEA Oberthur, 1876 (a cheironym). 



Oberthur has been treated as having published Conoploea as a new name in 1876 (Etud. ent. 

 1 : 36, nota (**)). In that passage he made some observations on the problem of mimicry in 

 the butterflies, in the course of which he made the following passing reference to this name : 

 " Les Idaea [sic] sont copiees par le Pap. Idaeoides ; . . . les Conoploea par le Papilio caenea ; 

 ..." It is quite evident from this quotation that Oberthur looked upon the name Conoploea as 

 already a well-established name ; he was well acquainted with the work of Guenee, by whom 

 the name was first published (in 1865) and also with that of Boisduval by whom it was first 

 devised in manuscript, and he probably looked upon this name as having been introduced by 

 one or other of these lepidopterists. In any case it is certain that Oberthur himself never 

 introduced the name Conoploea as a new name of his own. 



This ghost-name would not be worth mentioning if it were not for the fact that it has been 

 treated as a duly published name of Oberthur's in a number of well-known later publications 



