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adopted a suggestion made to him by Kirby that the name Eurhinia was " evidently given to 

 supplant " the name Rhinopalpa Felder (C.) & Felder (R.). i860, which, as Scudder explained 

 (loc. cit. 10 : 263) was regarded by Kirby and himself as being invalid as being a name composed 

 of a compound word of hybrid origin (partly Latin ; partly Greek). Acting on this hypothesis, 

 Scudder treated lihinopalpa fulva Felder (C.) & Felder (R.). i860, the type-species of Rhino- 

 palpa as being also the type-species of Eurhinia. At this point it must be noted, first, that the 

 ground on which Scudder (and Kirby) rejected the name Rhinopalpa has no justification under 

 the Code, and, second, that there is nothing whatever in the original description of Eurhinia 

 to suggest that that name was a replacement name for Rhinopalpa. Scudder's action in 

 selecting the (non-included) nominal species Rhinopalpa fulva to be the type-species of Eurhinia 

 is therefore invalid. The genus Eurhinia remained without a validly selected type-species 

 until, in 1943, I selected Papilio polynice Cramer to be type-species. [It may be noted that 

 Scudder's incorrect action did not, according to current taxonomic ideas, materially affect the 

 interpretation of the genus Eurhinia, for the taxon represented by Rhinopalpa fulva is 

 currently considered to be a subspecies of that represented by the nominal species Papilio 

 polynice Cramer.] 



EURIDES Godman & Salvin, 1880, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 : 130 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Eueides Hiibner, 1816). 



EURIPHENE Boisduval, 1847, in Delegorgue, Voy. Afrique austr. 2 : 592. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Euriphene coerulea Boisduval, 1847, ibid. 2 : 592. 



I be name Euriphene Boisduval was for long thrust on one side in favour of the Unjustified 

 Emendation Euryphene published for it by Westwood m 1850 and employed by that author 

 and many of his successors for an entirely different group of species. The species formerly 

 attributed to the nomenclatorially non-existent genus Euryphene Westwood are now placed 

 in the genus liebearia Hemming, i960. The phantom name liurvphene Westwood was some- 

 times given a false air of existence by being attributed not to Westwood but to Boisduval, 

 1847. This misattribution still further increased the general confusion by leading to the 

 abandonment of the true Euriphene Boisduval, 1847, the species belonging to which (including 

 the type-species) coming to be known by the later name Diestogyna Karsch, 1893. (The latter 

 is in fact no more than a junior subjective synonymof Euriphene Boisduval.) 



The interpretation of the nominal species Euriphene coerulea Boisduval was initially some- 

 what handicapped by the fact that by some mistake Boisduval gave " Natal " as its type- 

 locality. This was corrected by Aurivillius in 1898 (K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stock- 

 holm, 35, No. 5 : 204, nota 1) who drew attention to the fact that Boisduval's type-specimen, 

 preserved in the British Museum, bore the label " Cote de Guinee ". Another reason which 

 may have added to the difficulties in this case may have been that by someoversight Aurivillius 

 omitted to refer to it when dealing with the African Fauna in Seitz's Grossschmetterlinge der 

 Erde (vol. 13). This species appears to be well-characterized and to be plentiful where it 

 occurs in West Africa, there being a long series of it in the British Museum. 



EURIPUS Doubleday, [1848], Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 41, fig. 2. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Euripus halitherses Doubleday, [1848], ibid. (2) : pi. 41, fig. 2. 



In the text, written by Westwood after Doubleday's death and published in 1850 (: 293) a 

 second species was cited as belonging to this genus, but this has no nomenclatorial significance, 

 in view of the fact that (as shown above) the type-species of this genus had been determined 

 by monotypy two years earlier when plate 41 was published. 



This is an available name, Corbet (1943) having been in error in rejecting it as a junior 

 homonym of Eurypus Kirby, 1819 (see Article 56(a)). The replacement name Idrusia then 

 published by Corbet is therefore invalid as a junior objective synonym of Euripus Doubleday. 



EUROTO Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 549. 

 Type-species by original designation : Paraphilia compta Butler, 1877, Trans, ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1877 : 152. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Pamphila compta is currently treated sub- 



