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METAMORPHA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 43. Type-species by selection 

 by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 217) : Metamorpha elissa 

 Hiibner, [1819], ibid. (3) : 43. 



The name Metamorpha elissa was introduced by Hiibner as a replacement for the name 

 Papilio supitia Stoll, [1780] (in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (28) : 77, pi. 328, figs A, B). This was 

 a necessary replacement, for the name Papilio sulpitia Stoll is invalid, as a junior homonym 

 of the older name Papilio sulpitia Cramer, [1779] (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (18) : 37, pi. 214, fig. E). 

 Thus, although still commonly called by the name sulpitia, this species has for its valid name 

 the name elissa Hiibner. 



Correctly defined by the foregoing type-species, this genus belongs to the Junonia/Anarlia 

 section of the family Nymphalidae. As has been explained above in the note on the name 

 Metamandana Stichel, the name Metamorpha Hiibner was formerly incorrectly treated as 

 having Papilio dido Linnaeus, 1763, as its type-species and was accordingly employed as the 

 name for the Heliconiine genus, of which the correct name is Philaethria Billberg, 1820. 



METAPHELES Bates, 1866, Ent. mon. Mag. 3 : 155. Type-species by monotypy : Meta- 

 pheles dinora Bates, 1866, ibid. 3 : 155. 



METAPORIA Butler, 1870, Cistnla ent. 1 : 38, 51. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pieris agathon Gray, 1831, Zool. Miscell. (Gray) (1) : 33. 



METARDARIS Mabille, 1903, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (A) : 7, n. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Pyrrhopyga [sic] cosinga Heuitson, 1874, Bolivian Butts Buckley : 20. 



METELODINA Seitz, [1927], Grossschmett. Erde 9 (Exot. 440) : 1108 (Errata). Type-species 

 through Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Parelodina anticyra Fruhstorfer, [1910], 

 in Seitz, ibid. 9 : 123. 



The name Metelodina was introduced as a replacement of Parelodina Fruhstorfer, [1910], 

 which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



In introducing this name, Seitz must have been unaware that the name Parelodina had 

 already been replaced by the name Elodinesthes by Fruhstorfer in 1914. The name Metelo- 

 dina Seitz is therefore invalid as being a junior objective synonym of Elodinesthes Fruhstorfer. 



METHION Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 563. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Methion melas Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, ibid., 

 Lep. Rhop. 2 : 564, pi. 100, figs 22, 23 o*- 



METHIONOPSIS Godman, [1901], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 598. 

 Type-species by original designation : Methionopsis modestus Godman, [1901], in Godman 

 & Salvin, ibid., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 599, pi. 103, figs 14, 16, 16 o*- 



METHONA Doubleday, [1847], Gen. diurn. Lep. (1) : 115. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Thiridia [sic] themisto Hiibner, 1818, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : 28 : pi. [29], figs 

 163, 164. 



METHONE Doubleday, 1847, List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 2 : 4. Type-species by monotypy: 

 Papilio cecilia Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (14) : 98, pi. 159, figs D, E. 



METHONELLA Westwood, [1852], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 533. Type-species 

 through Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Papilio cecilia Cramer, [1777], Uitl. 

 Kapellen 2 (14) : 98, pi. 139, figs D, E. 



The name Methonella was introduced by Westwood as a replacement name for Methone 

 Doubleday, 1847, in the belief that that name was invalid as a junior homonym of the Itho- 

 miid name Methona Doubleday, [1847]. Under the " One-Letter-Difference " embodied in 

 Article 56 (a) of the present Code names such as Methone and Methona do not rank as homo- 

 nyms of one another and the name Methone Doubleday is an available name. Accordingly 

 the name Methonella, proposed as a replacement for it, is invalid as a junior objective synonym. 



METISCUS Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 562. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Metiscus atheas Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, ibid., 

 Lep. Rhop. 2 : 563, pi. 100, figs 20, 21 o*- 



