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MAHATHALA Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3) : 702. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Amblypodia ameria Hewitson, 1862, Specimen Cat. Lycaenidae Brit. Mus. : 14, pi. 8, figs 

 85, 86 <J. 



MAHINTHA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 280. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Euploea subdita Moore, [April 1879], loc. cit. 1878 (4) : 823. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Euploea subdita Moore is currently treated on 

 subjective grounds as being the same as the taxon represented by the older-established nominal 

 species Euploea layardi Druce, 1874 (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 : 103-104, pi. 16, fig. 1); 

 further, that taxon is currently treated as a form of the taxon represented by the nominal 

 species Papilio core Cramer, [1780] (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (23) : 133, pi. 266, figs E, F). 



MAHOTIS Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : n, 13. Type-species by original 

 designation : Tamyris nurscia Swainson, [1821], Zool. Illuslr. (3) 1 : pi. 61, fig. 1. 



MAIVA Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893, Iihop. exot. (24) : Lycaenidae 96. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Maiva sulphurea Grose-Smith <.V- Kirby, 1893, ibid. (24) : Lycaenidae 96, pi. 21, 



fig- 13 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Maiva sulphurea Grose-Smith & Kirby is 

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

 the older-established nominal species Papilio brigitta Stoll, [1780] (in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 

 (28) : 82, pi. 331, figs B, C). 



MALAIS Doherty, 1889, J. asial. Soc. Bengal, I't II, 58 (4) : 414-415, 436. Type-species by 

 selection by Hemming (i960, Annot. lep. (1) : n) : Logania malayica Distant, 1884, Rhop. 

 malay. : 208, pi. 22, fig. 21 $. 



Both Bingham (1907, Faun. Brit, Ind. Butts 2 : 302) and Swinhoe ([1910], in Moore, Lep. 

 ind. 7 (81) : 200) identified Malais with Logania Distant, [889, adding that the type-species of 

 that genus was Logania malayica, but neither of these authors then selected a type-species for 

 Malais which remained without a type-species until (as shown above) Logania malayica was 

 so selected in i960. 



The name Malais Doherty is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Logania Distant. 



MALAZA Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (B) : 95. Type-species by selection by 

 Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 91) : Cyclopides catocalinus Mabille, [1878], 

 Petites Nouvelles ent. 2 (10) : 285. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Cyclopides catocalinus Mabille is currently 

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

 established nominal species Cyclopides carmides Hewitson, 1868 (Descr. One Hundred new Spec. 

 Hesp. (4) : 44). 



The above taxon is currently considered subjectively on taxonomic grounds to be con- 

 generic with the taxon represented by the nominal species Trapezites fastuosits Mabille, 1884, 

 the type-species of the nominal genus Manarina Mabille, 1904. Since the names Malaza and 

 Manarina were published in the same work and on the same date, the relative precedence to be 

 accorded to them depends on the choice of the First Reviser. This was Evans who in 1937 

 (Cat. Afric. Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 132) chose the name Malaza to take precedence over the name 

 Manarina. 



MAMBARA Bethune-Baker, July 1908, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (1) : 119. Type-species by 

 original designation : Mambara nigropunctata Bethune-Baker, 1908, ibid. 1908 (1) : 120, pi. 

 8, fig. 5- 



The name Mambara as bestowed by Bethune-Baker on the present Lycaenid genus was 

 published on 3rd July 1908. By some inexplicable oversight Bethune-Baker bestowed the 

 name Mambara also upon a genus of Limacodid moths also published in 1908 (Novit. zool. 15 

 (1) : 182). The wrapper of the Part of the Novitates containing the Limacodid name Mambara 

 in addition to being dated " 1908 ", bears the words " Issued June 25 ". Thus, the present 

 (Lycaenid) name Mambara is invalid under the Law of Homonymy as a junior homonym of the 



