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ELSA Honrath, 1892, Berl. ent. Z. 36 (2) : 436. Type-species by monotypy : Elsa morgeni 

 Honrath, 1892, ibid. 36 (2) : 436-437, pi. 15, fig. 5 <$. 



ELWESIA Evans, 1926, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31 : 53, 429. Type-species by original 

 designation : Eogenes alcides var. lesliei Evans, 1912, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21 (3) : 1007. 



The species-group name lesliei was originally proposed by Elwes ; at the time when it was 

 published — and the taxon was characterized — in 191 2, Evans erroneously believed that it had 

 been published by Elwes and attributed it to that author with the result that it had then none 

 of the appearance of being a new name. Later, Evans realized what had happened in 1912 and 

 correctly attributed this name to himself (1949, Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia : 270). 



The name Elwesia Evans is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Elwesia Hampson, 1894 

 (Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths 2 : 171). It has been replaced by the name Chilralia Evans, 1932. 



ELYMNIAS Hiibner, 1818, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Sclimett. 1 : 12. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 24) : Elymnias jynx Hiibner, 1818, ibid. 

 1 : 12, pi. [7], figs 37, 38. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Elymnias jynx Hiibner is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older- 

 established nominal species Papilio undularis Drury, [1773] (III. nat. Hist. 3 : index et 48, 

 pi. 35, figs 2, 3). Further, it should be noted that the taxon represented by the nominal 

 species Papilio undularis Drury is currently treated subjectively as a subspecies of the taxon 

 represented by the nominal species Papilio hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763 (Amoen. acad. 6 : 40). 



The name Elymnias has had a rather unfortunate history. First, Scudder (1875, Proc. 

 amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 161, 162) fell into the error of selecting as the type-species 

 a nominal species (Papilio lais Cramer, [1777]) which Hiibner had placed in Elymnias in the 

 Verz. bekannt. Schmett. published in 1819 but which he did not include in that genus when he 

 first published the name Elymnias. Although this selection was invalid, its acceptance — 

 when it was accepted — did not lead to any taxonomic difficulty, as the taxon represented by 

 the above nominal species is subjectively regarded as the same as that represented by the 

 nominal species (Elymnias jynx) which is the true type-species of Elymnias. 



When establishing the genus Elymnias in the Zutrdge Hiibner placed in it two nominal 

 species ; these were Elymnias jynx Hiibner and Papilio protogenia Cramer, [1777]. Both 

 these names are treated subjectively as applying to a single taxon, Papilio undularis Drury, 

 the name by which this species is, and has long been, known. The nominal species so named 

 was formally selected as the type-species of Elymnias by Moore in 1894 (Lep. ind. 2 (18) : 145). 

 This selection came to be generally accepted, but technically was invalid because Hiibner did 

 not cite Papilio undularis Drury as belonging to Elymnias when he established that genus in the 

 Zutrdge in 1818. The genus Elymnias remained without a valid type-species until (as already 

 explained) Elymnias jynx Hiibner was so selected by myself in 1943. 



ELYMNIOPSIS Fruhstorfer, 1907, Iris 20 (3) : 171, 173-174. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 24) : Papilio phegea Fabricius, 1793, 

 Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 132. 



The name Papilio phegea Fabricius is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Papilio phegea 

 Borkhausen, 1788 (Naturgesch. europ. Schmett. 1 : 101). It has been replaced by the name 

 Elymniopsis Use Hemming, i960 (Annot. lep. (1) : 30). 



ELYMNOTAENARIS Fruhstorfer, [1911], in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde : 411. Type-species 

 by selection by Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 25) : Morpho bioculatus 

 Guerin-Meneville, [1831], in Duperry, Voy. autour Monde " Coquille," Zool. 2 (Pt 2) : 318 

 (where a back-reference is given to the description of this taxon on page 282 under the name 

 Hiades [sic] indra). 



ELZUNIA Bryk, 1937, Parnassiana 4 (3/8) : 20-21. Type-species by original designation : 

 Helicona [sic] bonplandii Guerin-Meneville, [1844], Icon. Regne Anim. Cuvier 3 (texte 

 explic.) (Ins.) : 472-473. 



