GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 205 



species was designated. This defect was remedied by Condamin when (as shown above) he 

 republished this name with Mycalesis asochis Hewitson designated as type-species. (It may 

 perhaps be useful to note that in the Insecta portion (: 274) of the volume (vol. 97) of the 

 Zoological Record for 1960 the nominal species Papilio halyma Fabricius, 1793 (Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 

 243) was stated to the type-species in the entry relating to this genus as introduced in Conda- 

 min's paper of i960. It is not clear whether the compiler of this entry was consciously making 

 good the omission in Condamin's paper or whether the citation of this species as the type- 

 species was due to some inadvertence. This matter is however of no consequence, for the 

 portion of the Zoological Record concerned was not published until August 1962, by which 

 time (as shown above) Condamin himself had designated Mycalesis asochis as the type-species.) 



HALLIA Tutt, [1906], Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 1 : 261. Type-species by original designation : 

 Thanaos marloyi Boisduval, [1834], Icon. hist. Lipid. Europe 1 : 241, pi. 47, figs 6, 7 o". 



The name Hallia Tutt is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Halliit Edwards & Haime, 

 1850 (Brit. foss. Corals (Pal. Soc. 3) : l.xvi). 



HALOTUS Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, cenlr.-amer., Lep.-Rhop. 2 : 505. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Halotus saxula Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, ibid. 2 : 

 506, pi. 95, figs 42, 43, 44 J. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Halotus saxula Godman is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the s line as that represented by the older-estab- 

 lished nominal species Hesperia angellus Plotz, 1886 (Stett. ent. Ztg 47 : 94). 



HALPE Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3) : 689. Type-species by designation by the 

 Commisssion under the Plenary Powers : Halpe moorei Watson, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1893 : 109. 



Halpe is a genus which was based on a misidentified type-species. The circumstances are 

 as follows. Halpe was established with five included nominal species but none of these was 

 designated as type-species. One of these, the nominal species Hesperia beturia Hewitson, 

 1868 (Descr. One Hundred New Spec. Hesp. (2) : 36), was selected as the type-species by Watson 

 in 1893 (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : <)3). In the same paper (loc. cit. : 109) Watson described 

 an allied species under the name Halpe moorei. Watson added ( : no) that this species usually 

 stood in Indian collections as beturia Hewitson owing to the fact that Hewitson himself had 

 confused the taxon occurring in the Nilgiris (now named moorei by Watson) with a quite 

 different species occurring in Celebes. This piece of synonymy which corresponds with the 

 evidence afforded by the type-specimens of beturia and moorei in the British Museum, has been 

 accepted by all subsequent authors. Unluckily, one aspect of this case was overlooked by 

 Watson when he selected Hesperia beturia Moore to be the type-species of the genus Halpe; 

 this was that, when in 1878 Moore established Halpe and placed in it what he then identified 

 as beturia Hewitson, this was the Indian species (later named moorei by Watson) and not 

 the true beturia from Celebes. Thus, through Watson's action Halpe became a genus based on 

 a misidentified species. This was first pointed out by Swinhoe in 1913 (in Moore, Lep. ind. 

 10 (119) : 264) who thereupon cited Halpe moorei Watson as the type-species. The same 

 course was followed by Evans in 1949 (Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus. : 257, 260, 

 265). Under the Code however it is incorrect to accept as the type-species of a genus any 

 nominal species not cited as belonging to the genus at the time when the generic name con- 

 cerned was originally published. Accordingly, the Commission is being asked to regularize the 

 position by designating Halpe moorei Watson to be the type-species of this genus under the 

 Misidentified-Type-Species Procedure laid down in Article 70 of the Code. For the sake of 

 continuity the name Halpe is here provisionally treated as though the action indicated above 

 had already been taken by the Commission. 



It must here be noted that in 1925 (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 88) Lindsey advanced the view 

 that the nominal species Halpe ceylonica Moore, 1878, (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 : 690, pi. 45, 

 fig. 9) had been selected as the type-species of the genus Halpe by Kirby in [1880] (in Zool. 

 Rec. 15 (year 1878) (Ins.) : 188). Lindsey's statement is incorrect in every respect, and must 



