286 FRANCIS HEMMING 



MELILAEA Fabricius, 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6 : 284. Type-species by selection by 

 Westwood (1840, Introd. Class. Ins. 2, Syn. : 88) : Papilio cinxia Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. 

 (ed. 10) 1 : 480. 



MELLANA Hayward, 1948, Acta zool. lilloana 5 : 98. Type-species by original designation : 

 Atrytone mella Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr .-amer . , Lep. Rhop. 2 : 492, 

 pi. 94, figs 14-16. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Atrytone mella Godman is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Hesperia clavus Erichson, 1848, in Schomburgk, Reise Brit.- 

 Guiana 3 : 603. 



MELLICTA Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 77. Type-species by selection by Moore 

 ([1901], Lep. ind. 5 (49) : 2) : Papilio athalia Rottemburg, 1775, Der Naturforscher 6 : 5. 



Moore's type-selection for this genus was overlooked until attention was drawn to it by 

 Higgins in 1955 {Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 : 4). Up till then it had been assumed that 

 through the selection by Barnes & McDunnough in 1916 (Conlrib. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Amer. 

 3 (2) : 83) the type-species was Papilio cinxia Linnaeus, 1758 ; the name Mellicta Billberg 

 was in consequence erroneously treated during that period as a junior objective synonym of 

 Melitaea Fabricius, 1807. 



MELPHINA Evans, 1937, Cat. Afric. Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 8, 162. Type-species by original 

 designation : Parnara melphis Holland, 1894, Ent. News 5 : 31. 



MELYNIAS Moore, [1894], Lep. ind. 2 (18) : 144, 156. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio lais Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (10) : 21, pi. no, figs A, B. 



MEMPHIS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 48. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 215) : Papilio odilia Stoll, [1780], in 

 Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (28) : 79, pi. 329, figs C, D. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio odilia Stoll is currently treated 

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

 nominal species Papilio polycarmes Fabricius, 1775 {Syst. Ent. : 484). 



The type-species of this genus is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being 

 congeneric with Papilio troglodyta Fabricius, 1775, the type-species of Anaea Hiibner, [1819]. 

 These generic names were published on the same date and on the same page and in consequence 

 the relative precedence to be accorded to them depends on the choice of the First Reviser. 

 This was Kirby who in 1871 {Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 276) gave preference to the name Anaea 

 Hiibner, sinking the name Memphis Hiibner as a synonym. 



MENAMA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 264. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Euploea camaralzeman Butler, 1886, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1866 : 271, pi. 29, fig. 1. 



MENAMOPSIS de Niceville, 1886,/. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt II, 55 (No. 5) : 433. Type-species 

 by monotypy : Papilio tavoyanus Butler, 1882, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 10 : 373. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio tavoyanus Butler is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Papilio slateri Hewitson, [1859] {III. exot. Butts 2 [3], pi. [2], fig. 9). 



MENANDER Hemming, 1939, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 137. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Papilio menander Stoll, [1780], in Cramer, 

 Uitl. Kapellen 4 (28) : 86, pi. 334, figs C, D. 



The name Menander was introduced as a replacement for the name Thar ops Hiibner, [18 19], 

 which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



MENELAIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (6) : 84. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 216) : Papilio polytes Linnaeus, 

 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 460. 



