26o FRANCIS HEMMING 



Budapest Congress of 1927 (now embodied in the provision of the Code cited above) none of 

 those usages constituted a valid publication of this generic name. However, in his treatment 

 of this name in Das Thierreich in 1935 Bryk complied (though, as it were, inadvertently) with 

 all the requirements of the Budapest Congress, and the name Lingamius so published accord- 

 ingly acquired at last the status of availability under the Code. 



LINKA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 300, 324. Type species by original 

 designation : Hesperia lina Plotz, 1883, Stelt. ent. Ztg 44 : 209. 



LINTNERIA Edwards, March 1877, Trans, amer. ent. Soc. 6 : 57. Type-species by monotypy: 

 Hesperia zampa Edwards, 1876, ibid. 5 : 207. 



The above was the only species placed in this genus by Edwards, though formerly some 

 authors took the view that he should be treated as having included in it a second species 

 (Papilio daunns Cramer) cited in a note by Butler quoted by Edwards in a supplementary 

 note added to his description of this genus. That this view was incorrect and that Hesperia 

 zampa was the type-species by monotypy was first clearly established by Lindsey in 1925 

 [Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 91). (The name Lintneria Butler (in Edwards) is discussed in 

 detail in the immediately following entry). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Hesperia zampa Edwards is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the 

 older-established nominal species Leucochitonea pidverulenta Felder (R.), 1869 (Verh. zool.- 

 bot. Ges. Wien 19 : 478). 



The name Lintneria Edwards is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, being a junior 

 homonym of Lintneria Butler, [Nov. 1876] (Trans, zool. Soc. Lond. 9 : 620), a name bestowed 

 upon a genus of Sphingid moths. It has been replaced by the name Systasea Edwards, June 

 1877. 



LINTNERIA Butler, 1877, in Edwards, Trans, amer. ent. Soc. 6 : 67. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio daunus Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (11) : 44, pi. 126, fig. F. 



The present nominal genus was established by Butler conditionally in a note which he 

 furnished to Edwards and which was included by that author in a supplementary note to his 

 description of his own genus Lintneria. In this note Butler wrote that Hesperia zampa which 

 Edwards had decided to make the type-species of his genus, " seems to belong to a group of 

 species provisionally retained under Thanaos and of which I consider H. daunus Cramer to 

 be the type ". Edwards went on to say that Butler had at the same time sent him " a pen 

 drawing of daunus, its antennae, palpi, etc."; he added that " the definition of the genus is 

 his [Butler's] own ". While it is quite likely that Butler, when writing to Edwards, did not 

 contemplate the possibility of his note being published, that note serves to establish a nominal 

 genus with Papilio daunus Cramer as its designated type-species. It was correctly recognized 

 as such by Kirby in [1879] (in Zool. Rec. 14 (year 1877) (Ins.) : 139). Thereafter, this name 

 was largely overlooked, until the publication in 1925 (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 91) of the 

 important paper on the type-species of the Hesperioid genera by Lindsey, in which it was 

 specifically pointed out that, although Edwards had included Butler's note as a supplement 

 to his description of his genus Lintneria, he did not incorporate Butler's observations as part 

 of his description of that genus. Fortunately, this incident is of academic interest only, for 

 the name Lintneria Butler — if, as here considered, Butler's note constituted the publication 

 of that name — would, like the undoubted generic name Lintneria Edwards, published on the 

 same occasion, be invalid under the Law of Homonymy. From the taxonomic point of view 

 the two species here under consideration belong to widely separated branches of the 

 Hesperioid stock : the type-species of Systasea Edwards, June 1877, the replacement genus 

 established to take the place of the nominal genus Lintneria Edwards, March 1877, is currently 

 placed in the Neotropical group which Evans (1953 : r > l ^>°) called the " Telemiades Group " 

 of his Section 2 of the Pyrginae ; the type-species of Lintneria Butler, on the other hand, is 

 currently placed in the genus Thorybes Scudder, 1872, which was put by Evans (1952 : 1, 42, 

 129, 130) in what he called the " Urbanus Group " of his Section 1 of the above subfamily. 



