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noted that, as matters then stood, the oldest — and, indeed, the only — available generic name 

 lor Papilio boeticus was Cosmolyce Toxopeus, 1927. Luckily, a few years later a bibliographi- 

 cal discovery by Chadwick (1937, Ent. News 48 : 294-295) made it unnecessary either to 

 adopt the distasteful change described above or to have resort to the Commission to prevent 

 this from happening, for it was in that year that Chadwick drew attention to a totally overlook- 

 ed selection of Papilio boeticus as type-species of Lampides made by Grote in 1873, that is, 

 two years before the offending selection of Lampides zethns made by Scudder in 1875. Thus, 

 after the chequered career described above, the genus Lampides came to rest, in legitimate 

 possession of Papilio boeticus as its type-species. 



LAMPONIA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mtts. 4 : 90, 201. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperia lamponia Hewitson, 1876, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 : 456. 



LAMPROLENIS Godman & Salvin, [1881], Proc. zool. Soc. Loud. 1880 (4) : 610. Type- 

 species by monotypy : Lamprolenis nitida Godman A: Salvin, [1881], ibid. 1880 (4) : 611, 

 pi. 56, fig. 2. 



LAMPROPTERA Gray, 1832, in Griffith's Curio's Anim. Kingdom 15 (Ins.) : pi. 102, fig. 4 

 [no text]. Type-species by monotvpv : Papilio curius Fabricius, 1787, Mantissa Ins. 

 2:9. 



LAMPROSPILUS Geyer, [1832], in llulmcr, Zulr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 4 : 30. Type- 

 species by monotypy : Lamprospilus genius Geyer, [1832], in Hubner, ibid. 4 : 30, pi, 

 [125], figs 727, 728. 



/ I MPROSURA Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 



1 : 380. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio cunus Fabricius, 1787, Mantissa Ins. 2 : 9. 

 Boisduval introduced the name Lamprosura in a discussion of the genus Leplocircus Swain- 

 son, [1833], describing it as a former manuscript name of his own, adding after it the words 

 " noblis olim ". Under the provisions of Article n(d), the name Lamprosura Boisduval is 

 invalid, as being a name published in a synonymy. 



LANGIA Tutt, [1906], Nat. Hist. Brit. Hulls 1 : 314. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio telicanus Lang, 1789, Verz. Schmett. Gegend. Augsburg (ed. 2) : 47. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio telicanus is currently treated subject- 

 ively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Papilio pirithous Linnaeus, 1767 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : 790) or as being a 

 subspecies of the taxon represented by that nominal species. 



The name Langia Tutt is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of the name Laugia Moore, 

 1872 (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872 : 567). Even ii the name Langia Tutt had not been invalid 

 on the above account, it would still have been an invalid name, as it is a junior objective 

 synonym of Syntarucus Butler, [1901]. 



LANGUIDA Ferreira d' Almeida, 1922, Melanges Up. 1 : 92. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Rhadinoptera genetyllis Ferreira d' Almeida, 1022, ibid. 1 : 92-93. 



Languida was established as a subgenus of Rhadinoptera, in which genus — as shown above — 

 the type-species was described. 



LAOGONA Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : 

 pi. 10 [ = pl. 6B]. Type-species by monotypy : Vanessa hypselis Godart, [1824], Ency. 

 mith. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 818. 



LAPARUS Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mtts. Bil/b. : 77. Type-species by selection by Hem- 

 ming (1934, Entomologist 67 : 37) : Papilio doris Linnaeus, 1771, Mantissa Plant. 2 : 356. 



LARINGA Moore, [1901], Lep. ind. 5 (49) : 24 ; ibid. 5 (50) : 25. Type-species by original 

 designation : Eurytela horsfieldii Boisduval, 1833, Nouv. Ann. Mtts. Hist, nat., Paris 



2 (2) : 202 — repaged offprint as Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lep. : 54. 



Moore began the description of the genus Laringa on the last page of Part 49 and completed 



