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HELIOPHORUS Geyer, [1832], in Hiibner, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 4 : 40. Type-species 

 by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 186) : Heliophorus 

 belenus Geyer, [1832], in Hiibner, ibid. 4 : 40, pi. [135], figs 785, 786. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Heliophorus belenus Geyer is currently treated 

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

 shed nominal species Polyommatus epicles Godart, [1824] {Ency. mith. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 646). 



HELIOPYRGUS Herrera, 1957, in Herrera, Etcheverry & Hochleitner, Rev. chil. Ent. 5 : 154. 

 Type-species by original designation : Syrichtus americanus Blanchard, 1852, in Gay, 

 Hist. fis. pol. Chile : 744. 



HELIORNIS Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 79. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1934, Entomologist 67 : 37) : Papilio achilles Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 

 1 : 463. 



The name Heliornis Billberg is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Morpho 

 Fabricius, 1807. 



HELLEIA Verity, 1943, Farfalle diurn. d' Italia 2 : 20, 48. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Papilio helle [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775, Ankiindung [sic] cines syst. Werkes 

 Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 181. 



HEMADARA Moore, [1893], Lep. ind. 2 (16) : 106. Type-species by original designation : 

 Yphthima [sic] narasingha Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East 

 India Coy (1) : 236. 



HEMEROCHARIS Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Btiffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 



I : 412. Type-species by selection by Hemming (1934, Gen. Names hoi. Butts 1 : 123) : 

 Papilio (Leptalis) astynome Dalman, 1823, Analecta ent. : 39. 



The name Hemerocharis Boisduval was published in the synonymy of Leptalis Dalman as a 

 manuscript name which he (Boisduval) had formerly proposed for Dalman's genus. 



At a time when there were no provisions regulating the status of names published in syno- 

 nymies I selected (in 1934) Papilio {Leptalis) astynome Dalman as the type-species, thus making 

 Hemerocharis Boisduval a junior objective synonym of Leptalis Dalman. The problem here 

 in question has been dealt with expressly in the revised Code of 1961 which provides (Article 



II (d)) that a name published in a synonymy acquires no status in zoological nomenclature 

 thereby. 



HEMIARGUS Hiibner, 1818, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : 19 Type-species by selection 

 by Hemming (1934, G en - Names hoi. Butts 1 : 104) : Hemiargus antibubastus Hiibner, 

 1818, ibid. 1 : 19, pi. [18], figs 99, 100. 



There has been some confusion regarding the species to be accepted as the type-species of 

 this genus, partly because of a misconception as to the work in which the name Hemiargus 

 was first published and partly because of faulty identifications of the nominal species selected 

 as type-species. 



The first author to deal with this question was Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 

 Boston 10 : 186) who fell into the twofold error of supposing that the name Hemiargus was 

 first published in the Verzeichniss and of assigning the date " 1816 " to the portion of that work 

 in which that name appeared [Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (5) : (69). In actual fact, as is now 

 known, this portion of the Verzeichniss was not published until 1819, that is, one year after 

 the publication of volume 1 of the Zutrdge, in which also the name Hemiargus appeared. 



From the species placed in Hemiargus in the Verzeichniss Scudder selected Papilio hanno 

 Stoll, [1790] (Aanhangs. Werk Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : 170, pi. 39, fig. 2) to be the 

 type-species of Hemiargus. That nominal species was not included in Hemiargus when that 

 genus was originally established in the Zutrdge and accordingly its selection by Scudder as 

 the type-species is invalid. This mistake remained uncorrected until attention was drawn to it 

 by myself in 1929 {Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 3 : 229) when I pointed out that the only 

 nominal species included by Hiibner in the genus Hemiargus in the Zutrdge were the then new 



