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publication by Moore. It was published by Distant in his Rhop. malay. on 31st May 1884 

 and by Moore on 30th June 1884 (/. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt II, 53 (No. 1) : 22). The name 

 was correctly attributed to Distant by Moore, though at the time when Moore passed the 

 proofs of his paper, Distant's work containing this name must still have been in the press. 



LOHANA Moore, [1893], Lep. ind. 2 (14) : 58 ; ibid. 2 (16) : 92. Type-species by original 

 designation : Yphthima [sic] inica Hewitson, 1865, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 : 284, pi. 17, 

 fig- 5- 



LOHORA Moore, 1880, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 (4) : 175. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Mycalesis dexamenus Hewitson, [1862], 77/. exot. Butts 3 : [83], pi. [42], figs 

 17, 18, 19. 



LONIA Ferreira d'Almeida, [Jan. 1946], Agronomia, R. de J . 4 (No. 3) : 4. Type-species 

 through Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Olina azeca Doubleday, [1848], Gen. 

 diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 31, fig. 3 [text by Westwood published in [1851], in Doubleday, ibid. 

 (2) : 408]. 



The name Lonia was introduced by Ferreira d'Almeida as a replacement for the name 

 Vila Kirby on the ground that that name was invalid under the Law of Homonymy as a 

 junior homonym of the name Villa Lioy, 1864 (Alti 1st. Veneto (3) 9 : 732). At that date 

 these names did rank as homonyms of one another under the provisions of the Commission's 

 Opinion 147 (1043, Opin. int. Cotntn. zool. Norn. 2 : 123-132) which laid it down that in 

 the case of generic names certain specified minor differences in spelling, including the use 

 of a single or double consonant (as in the case of the letter " 1 " in the names Vila and Villa) 

 were to be disregarded for the purpose of determining whether the names were homonyms of 

 one another. Experience soon showed that the number of names of this type was consider- 

 ably greater than had previously been supposed and that the application of the provisions 

 of the above Opinion would cause an unnecessary disturbance in nomenclatorial practice. 

 It was accordingly decided by the Copenhagen Congress of 1953 to replace that Opinion by a 

 provision now embodied in the Code as Article 56(a) under which a difference in spelling of a 

 single letter was to be accepted as sufficient to prevent any two generic names from being 

 treated as homonyms of one another. Under this revised provision the names Vila and 

 Villa ceased to be homonyms of one another, and in consequence the name Vila Kirby 

 became an available name and the replacement name Lonia Ferreira d'Almeida became 

 invalid as a junior objective synonym of Vila Kirby. 



LONTARA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 261. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Euploea wallacei Felder (C.) & Felder (R), i860, Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 231. 



LOPHOIDES Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 72, 84. Type-species by original 

 designation : Isoteinon iapis de Niceville, 1890, /. Bombay nal. Hist. Soc. 5 : 213, pi. E, 

 fig. 9 6*- 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Isoteinon iapis is currently treated sub- 

 jectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older- 

 established nominal species Goniloba protoclea Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869 (CorrespBl. zool.-min. 

 Ver. Regensburg 23 : 195 [repaged separate as Prodromus . . 3 : 75]). 



LOPINGA Moore, [1893], Lep. ind. 2 (13) : 11. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pararge dumetorum Oberthur, 1886, Etud. ent. 11 : 23, pi. 4, fig. 20. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Pararge dumetorum Oberthur is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being congeneric with the taxon represented 

 by the nominal species Hipparchia deidamia Eversmann, 1851, the type-species of Crebeta 

 Moore, [1893]. The generic names Lopinga Moore and Crebeta Moore were published in the 

 same work and on the same date. The relative precedence to be accorded to these names 

 depends therefore on the choice made by the First Reviser. That choice was made by 

 myself in 1964 (Annot. lep. (3) : 78) when I chose the name Lopinga Moore to take precedence 

 over the name Crebeta Moore. 



