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of these groups was that centring around the well-known species Papilio coridon Poda. At 

 this stage Chapman handed over his results to Tutt who thereupon allotted generic names to 

 these groups, introducing numerous new ones for this purpose. In the case of the coridon- 

 group he re-introduced the long-forgotten name Agriades Hiibner, of which he erroneously 

 believed Papilio coridon to be the type-species (Tutt, 1906, Ent. Rec. 18 : 13 ; id., [1906] 

 Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 1 : 313). On the discovery that the true type-species of Agriades 

 was a species belonging to a quite different group the coridon-grouTp was seen to be without 

 an available generic name. In 1929 I endeavoured to fill this gap by establishing the 

 nominal genus Uranops with Papilio coridon as type-species. Unfortunately, this effort 

 proved unsuccessful, for the name Uranops was found to be invalid under the Law of 

 Homonymy. I then introduced the replacement name Lysandra, the name currently used for 

 this genus. In 1956 the Commission in its Opinion 429 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 14 : 323- 

 338) placed the name Lysandra Hemming on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as 

 Name No. 1023. 



MACHACUS Swinhoe, [1913], in Moore, Lep. ind. 10 (117) : 194. Type-species by original 

 designation : Thanaos jhora de Niceville, 1885, /. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt 2, 54 : 122, pi. 2, 

 fig. 12 6"- 



MACROPLOEA Butler, [1878], /. linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. 14 : 291. Type-species by selection 

 by Kirby ([1880], in Zool. Rec. 15 (year 1878) (Ins.) : 174) : Papilio phaenareta Schaller, 

 1785, Der Naturforscher 21 : 177, pi. 5, figs 1, 2. 



MACULINEA van Eecke, 1915, Zool. Med., Leiden 1 : 28. Type-species by selection by 

 Graves (1928, Ent. Rec. 40 : 102) : Papilio alcon [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775, Ankiindung 

 [sic] eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 182. 



The taxon represented by Papilio alcon is currently considered subjectively on taxonomic 

 grounds to be congeneric with the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio arion 

 Linnaeus, 1758, which for a time was erroneously supposed to be the type-species of Lycaena 

 Fabricius, 1807, following an incorrect type-determination by Tutt in 1906 {Ent. Rec. 18 : 130). 



MACUSIA Kaye, 1904, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1904 : 198-199. Type-species by original 

 designation : Thecla satyroides Hewitson, [1865], III. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 74; 

 2 (plates) : pi. 29, figs 10, 12 o\ 1 3 ?• 



MADAIS Swinhoe, [1909], in Moore, Lep. ind. 7 (79) : 152. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Papilio fausta Olivier, [1804], Voy. Othoman 4 : 29, pi. 33, figs 4A, B q\ 



MAGULA Fruhstorfer, [191 1], in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 9 : 313. Type-species by selection 

 by Hemming (1935, Stylops 4 : 1) : Zophoessa jalaurida de Niceville, 1880, /. asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, Pt II, 49 (4) : 245. 



It should perhaps be noted that at one time Megerle contemplated establishing a genus 

 having the name Magula but never did so. This manuscript name of Megerle's was mentioned 

 in 1882 (Nomencl. zool., Suppl. List : 200) by Scudder who cited it in the synonymy of Trochus 

 Linnaeus, 1758. Fortunately, under Article 11(d) the publication of a name in a synonymy in 

 this way does not confer any status of availability upon the name so published. Accordingly, 

 Megerle's manuscript name Magula as published by Scudder in 1882 possesses no status in 

 nomenclature and does not invalidate the name Magula Fruhstorfer, [191 1]. 



MAHALDIA Moore, [1897], Lep. ind. 3 (27) : 49. Type-species by original designation : 

 Adolias sahadeva Moore, 1859, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 : 80, pi. 8, fig. 3 <$. 



When establishing this nominal genus, Moore designated its type-species, but did not provide 

 a generic diagnosis. He made good this omission in the following year ([1898], loc. cit. 3 (31) : 

 132)- 



