GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 277 



MANTO de Niceville, 1895, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 9 (3) : 312. Type-species by original 

 designation : Myrina hypoleuca Ilewitson, [1865], ///. diitrn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 

 38; 2 (plates) : pi. 17, figs 54, 55 6"- 



MANTOIDES Druce, 1896, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 (3) : 677. Type-species by original 

 designation : Mantoides licinius Druce, 1896, ibid. 1896 (3) : 677, pi. 21, figs 10 6*. " ?• 



MARELA Mabille, 1903, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (A) : 41. Type-species by selection by 

 Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 91) : Eudamus tamyroides Felder (C.) & Felder 

 (R.), [1867], Reise Fregattc " Novara " (3) : 509, pi. 70, figs 13, 14. 



MARICA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4) : 63. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1933, Entomologist 66 : 198) : Papilio stygne Ochsenheimer, 1807, Schmett. 

 Europa 1 (1) : 276. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio stygne Othsenheimer is currently 

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

 established nominal species Papilio meolans l'runner, 1798 (Lepid. pedemont. : 71). 



MAR1US Swainson, [1830], Zool. Illustr. (2) 1 : pi. 45. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio marius Cramer, [1779], Uitl. Kapellen 3(17) : 14, pi. 200, figs D, E. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio marius Cramer is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the 

 older-established nominal species Papilio chiron Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. lint. : 452). An entirely 

 different species belonging to the family Lycaenidae was given the same name in 1775; this 

 was Papilio chiron Rottemburg, 1775 (Der Naturforscher 6 : 27). The specific name chiron of 

 Fabricius, which applies to a Nymphalid species, takes precedence over Rottemburg's 

 (Lycaenid) name chiron under the provisions of Opinion 516 (1958, Opin. int. Comm. zool. 

 Nom. 19 : 1-44) in which the Commission gave directions under its Plenarj Powers as to the 

 precedence to be accorded to names published by various authors in the year 1775, one of 

 the directions so given bein<^ that the Syslema Entomologiae of Fabricius was to be accorded 

 precedence over the paper published by Kottcmburg in Per Nalurforscher in the same year. 



MARMESSUS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. ((>) : 81. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. atner. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 212) : Papilio lisias Cramer, [1777], 

 Uitl. Kapellen 2 (13) : 89, pi. 152, figs F, G. 



MAROSIA Moore, [1898], Lep. ind. 3 (32) : 146. Type-species by original designation : 

 Neptis antara Moore, 1858, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 26 (347) : 4, pi. 49, fig. 2 $. 



When Moore established this nominal genus, he designated its type-species but did not 

 provide a generic definition. This deficiency he made good in the following year ([1899], loc. 

 cit. 4 (37) : 14). 



MARPESIA Hiibner, 1818, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : ^z. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 212) : Marpesia eleuchea Hiibner, 

 1818, ibid. 1 : 32, pi. [35], figs 197, 198. 



Scudder erroneously supposed that this generic name was first published by Hiibner in his 

 Verz. bekannt. Schmett. ((3) : 47) but, under Article 67(g) of the current revised Code this does 

 not invalidate his type-selection, since the species which he selected (Marpesia eleuchea) was 

 (as shown above) included in the genus in the Zutr age as well as in the later Verzeichniss 

 (published in 1819). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Marpesia eleuchea Hiibner is currently 

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

 older-established nominal species Papilio petreus Cramer, [1776] (Uitl. Kapellen 1 (8) : 138, pi. 

 87, figs D, E). 



MARSHALLIA Doherty, 1889, /. asiat. Soc. Bengal., Pt II, 58 (4) : 410 nota. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Oxylides tharis Geyer, [1837], in Hiibner, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 5 : 22, pi. 

 [152], figs 883, 884. 



Doherty introduced the name Marshallia as one which he had proposed in manuscript to 



