254 FRANCIS HEMMING 



is subjectively identified with Papilio sinapsis) but was quite inconsistent with the usage in 

 the earlier Zutrdge. 



LEPTOTES Scudder, 1876, Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 3 : 124. Type-species by original 

 designation : Lycaena theonus Lucas, 1857, in Sagra, Hist. fis. pol. nat. Isla Cuba 7 : 611, 

 pi. Art. 16, figs 8 6", 8A, 8B ?. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Lycaena theonus Lucas is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being a subspecies of the taxon represented by the 

 older-established nominal species Papilio cassius Cramer, [1775] Uitl. Kapellen 1 (2) : 36, 

 pi. 23, figs C, D. 



LEREMA Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 82. Type-species by 

 original designation : Papilio accius Smith, 1797, in Abbot, Ins. Georgia 1 : 45, pi. 23. 



LERODEA Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 80. Type-species by 

 original designation : Hesperia eufala Edwards, 1869, Trans, amer. ent. Soc. 2 : 311. 



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

 Papilio europa Fabricius, 1775, Sysl. Ent. : 500. 



LETHITES Scudder, 1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 265. 



This name was published as new by Scudder twice in the year 1875. The following is 

 the reference to the other paper : Mon. amer. Ass. Adv. Sci. 1 : 34. This name is often cited 

 as having been first published in the Memoires but in fact it first appeared in the Boston 

 Proceedings. This is shown by the fact that, in the Proceedings Scudder, when discussing 

 Saty rites, remarked that " in a memoir on fossil butterflies now in the press " he had replaced 

 that name by the name Lethites. Later (1882, Nomencl. zool. Suppl. List : 186) Scudder 

 himself expressly treated this name as having been first published in the Boston Proceedings. 

 The name Lethites was introduced as a replacement name for Satyrites Scudder, 1872, in 

 the erroneous belief that that name was invalid by reason of the use of the word "Satyrites" 

 by Boisduval & Brulle in 1840 as a family-group name. Satyrites Scudder, 1872, being a 

 nomenclatorially available name, its replacement Lethites Scudder, 1875, is invalid as a 

 junior objective synonym. 



LEUCANTIGIUS Shirozu & Murayama, 1951, Butts &■ Moths (Trans, lep. Soc. Japan) 2 (3) : 

 2 (3) : 17. Type-species by original designation : Thecla atayalica Shirozu & Murayama, 

 1943, Ent. World, Tokyo 2 (107) : 2-4, figs. 1 o\ 2 $. 



LEUCERONIA Aurivillius, 1895, Ent. Tidskr. 16 : 256 et nota. Type-species by original 

 designation : Callidryas buquetii Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. 

 Ins. Spec, gen., Lepid. 1 : 607. 



LEUCIACRIA Rothschild & Jordan, 1905, Novit. zool. 12 : 463. Type-species by original 

 designation : Leuciacria acuta Rothschild & Jordan, 1905, ibid. 12 : 463. 



LEUCIDIA Doubleday, [1847], Gen. diurn. Lep. (1) : 77. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 205) : Pieris elvina Godart, [1819], 

 Ency. mith. 9 (Ins.) (1) : 138. 



This nominal genus was established conditionally by Doubleday, when discussing the 

 genus Terias Swainson. Pieris elvina is the first of the two species cited by Doubleday for 

 this genus. He stated that the name Leucidia had originally been proposed (in manuscript) 

 by Boisduval. 



LEUCIDIA Herrich-Schaeffer, 1867, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 21 : 106, 125. 

 Type-species by selection by Butler (1870, Cislula ent. 1 : 43) : Leucidia elphos Felder (C.) & 

 Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 69. 



On the first mention of this name (: 106) Herrich-Schaeffer gave a diagnosis for this genus 

 but did not cite any included species, but on the second occasion (: 125) he cited two species 

 and at the same time expressly stated that he himself was the author of the name Leucidia. 

 Why he should have ignored the earlier name Leucidia Doubleday was presumably because 



