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HYPATUS Hiibner, 1822, Syst.-alp. Verz. : 3. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio celtis 

 Laicharting, 1782, in Fuessly, Archiv Insektengesch., Heft 2 (No. 4) : 1. 



Scudder erroneously supposed that this generic name was first published by Hiibner in 

 1825 in the Cat. Lip. Coll. F ranch ( : 85) and from the two species included in this genus on this 

 later occasion he selected (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 194) Papilio carinenta 

 Cramer, [1777] (Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9) : 18, pi. 108, figs E, F). 



HYPAUROTIS Scudder, 1876, Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 3 : 112. Type-species by original 

 designation : Thecla crysalus Edwards, 1873, Trans, amer. ent. Soc. 4 : 344. 



HYPERMNESTRA Menetries, 1848, Descr. Ins. rec.feu Lehmann : explic. pi. 6, fig. 1. Type- 

 species through Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Ismene helios Nickerl, 1846, 

 Stett. ent. Ztg 7 : 208, pi. [3], figs A, B <J, C, D ?. 



Formerly, the introduction of this name by M6netri6s in 1848 was commonly overlooked, the 

 name Hypermnestra being attributed either to Heydenreich (1851, Lepid. europ. Cat. meth. 

 (ed. 3) : 16) or to Westwood ([1852], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 530). The name 

 Hypermnestra Menetries is a replacement name for Ismene Xickerl, 1846, which is invalid 

 under the Law of Homonymy. 



HYPHILARIA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (2) : 26. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Hyphilaria nicia Hiibner, [1819], ibid. (2) : 26. 



The nominal species Hyphilaria nicia Hiibner is based solely upon a bibliographical refer- 

 ence to Papilio nicias Stoll, [1790] (Aanhangs. Werh Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : 60, pi. 13, 

 fig. 3), the specific name nicia Hiibner being thus an emendation of the name nicias Stoll. 

 This species is commonly known by the specific name nicias Stoll, but that name is invalid, 

 the combination Papilio nicias in which it was published being a junior homonym of Papilio 

 nicias Fabricius, 1787 (Mantissa Ins. 2 : 86). The oldest available name for this taxon is the 

 emendation nicia Hiibner. 



HYPNA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. behannt. Schmett. (4) : 56. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Papilio clytemnestra Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (12) : 61, pi. 137, figs A, B. 



HYPOCHLOROSIS Rober, [1892], in Schatz, in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 

 (Th. 2) (Lief. 6) 1267. Type-species by monotypy : Myrina antipha Hewitson, [1869], Cat. 

 diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text), Suppl. : 7 ; 2 (plates), Suppl. : suppl. pi. 6, figs 91 9. 92, 93 6"- 



HYPOCHRYSOPS Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), i860, Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 243 et nota. Type- 

 species by selection by Hemming (i960, Annot. lep. : 10-11) : Papilio polycletus Linnaeus, 

 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 485. 



A widespread misunderstanding regarding the species to be accepted as the type-species of 

 this genus followed upon a mistake made by Scudder in 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 

 Boston 10 : 194) in overlooking the establishment of this genus in i860 in volume 4 of the 

 Wien. ent. Monats. and accepting instead Part 2 (: 251) of the Lep. Rhop. Section of the 

 Reise Fregatte " Novara ", which was not published until 1865. The difficulty caused by this 

 mistake arose from the fact that the nominal species Thecla anaclelus Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 

 1861 (5. B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40 : 454) then selected by Scudder as the type-species of this 

 genus was not one of the nominal species included in i860 when the name Hypochrysops was 

 first established. In consequence the type-selection made by Scudder was invalid. That 

 type-selection was however followed uncritically by subsequent authors even after Kirby had 

 in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 378) drawn attention to the fact that it was in the Wien. ent. 

 Monats. that the name Hypochrysops had first been published. In fact, it was not until the 

 present work was in course of preparation that attention was drawn (by myself in i960) to the 

 fact that Scudder's type-selection was invalid and that in consequence the genus Hypochrysops 

 was still without a validly selected type-species. It was to remedy this situation that I 

 thereupon selected from among the three species placed in this genus in i860 the nominal 

 species Papilio polycletus Linnaeus to be the type-species. It was fortunate that this nominal 

 species was available for selection as type-species, for the taxon represented by Scudder's 

 pseudotype Thecla anacletus is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being a 



