20 4 FRANCIS HEMMING 



HAEMONIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 101. 



Hiibner erroneously believed that the sole species placed by him in this genus — Papilio 

 cvonis Cramer, [1775], {Uitl. Kapellen 1 (5) : 94, pi. 60, fig. C) — was a butterfly but it is in fact 

 a moth. 



HAETERA Fabricius, 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6 : 284. Type-species by selection by 

 Butler (1868, Ent. mon. Mag. 4 : 195) : Papilio piera Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 

 1 : 465. 



The discovery of the exact dates of publication of the plates included in Volume 1 of the 

 Samml. exot. Schmett. of Jacob Hiibner, consequent upon the examination of that author's 

 surviving manuscripts showed that in certain cases well-known generic names of Fabricius's 

 published in 1807 in volume 6 of Illiger's Mag. f. Insektenk. were junior synonyms of other 

 names which had appeared slightly earlier in that year in Hubner's Sammhing. It would have 

 been most undesirable, because most confusing, if these early Hiibnerian names had been 

 allowed to replace the well-known and long-established Fabrician equivalents. Accordingly 

 in 1935 I submitted an application to the Commission with a request that it should afford 

 protection to these threatened Fabrician names. This application was approved by the 

 Commission which gave a ruling under its plenary powers that precedence should be given to 

 the Fabrician names in question. This decision was promulgated by the Commission in its 

 Opinion 137 published in 1942 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 2 : 21-28). 



The name Haetera Fabricius belongs to the group of names discussed above, being an objec- 

 tive synonym of Oreas Hiibner, [1807] (Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pi. [82]), of which also Papilio 

 piera Linnaeus, 1758, is the type-species. Under the ruling given in Opinion 137 discussed 

 above, the name Haetera Fabricius takes precedence over the name Oreas Hiibner, the latter 

 becoming invalid as a junior objective synonym of Haetera Fabricius. 



HAETEROPSIS Westwood, [1850], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 63, fig. 5 (an In- 

 correct Original Spelling of Heteropsis Westwood, [1850]). 



The text relating to this genus (: 323) was published on the same date as plate 63, and here 

 the spelling Heteropsis was employed. The First Subsequent User was Kirby (1871, Syn. Cat. 

 diurn. Lep. : 96) who used the spelling Heteropsis, and that spelling has been used by every 

 subsequent writer, and is the Correct Original Spelling, the spelling Haeteropsis being an In- 

 correct Original Spelling and therefore invalid. 



HALIMEDE Oberthur & Houlbert, 1922, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris 174 : 192. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Halimede asiatica Oberthur & Houlbert, 1922, ibid. 174 : 192, fig. 1 $. 



Oberthur & Houlbert had the idea that, if the specific name of a given species were to be 

 selected as the name for a new genus for that species, it would be necessary to abandon that 

 name as the specific name for the species in question and to provide it with another. In the 

 present instance they took the word Halimede which had been used by Menetries in 1858 as a 

 specific name in the binomen Arge halimede and adopted it as a new generic name. That 

 nominal species was for long a matter of difficulty, Menetries having confused two different 

 species with one another. What Oberthur & Houlbert did was to erect the nominal species 

 Halimede asiatica for one of the taxa included by Menetries under the name Arge halimede but 

 not the taxon to which under the lectotype procedure the specific name halimede Menetries 

 now applies. 



The generic name Halimede Oberthur & Houlbert is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, 

 there being two older nominal genera bearing the name Halimede. These names are: — (a) 

 Halimede de Haan, 1835 (in Siebold, Faun, japon., Crust. (1835) : 35); (b) Halimede Rathke, 

 1843 (Nova Acta Leop. Carol. 20 (1) : 166). 



HALLELESIS Condamin, 1961, Bull. Inst. Afrique Noire (A) 23 : 783. Type-species by 

 original designation : Mycalesis asochis Hewitson, [1866], ///. exot. Butts 3 : [92], pi. [46], 

 figs 46, 47. 



The name Hallelesis was first published by Condamin in i960 (loc. cit. (A) 22 : 1256) but, as 

 then published, this name was invalid, for, although a generic diagnosis was provided, no type- 



