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names were published on the same date and in the same paper — actually on the same page — 

 the relative precedence to be accorded to them depends on the choice made by the First 

 Reviser. The First Reviser in this case was myself when in 1964 (Annot. lep. (3) : 86) I 

 selected the name Mimene Joicey & Talbot to take precedence before the name Biaka Joicey & 

 Talbot. 



MIMERESIA Stempffer, 1961, Ann. Mus. roy. Afr.-Centr. (8) (Sci. zool.) 94: 24. Type-species 

 by original designation : Liptena libentina Hewitson, [1866], ///. exot. Butts 3 [120], pi. 

 [60], figs 8, 9. 



MIMIA Evans, 1953, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 3 : 7, 32. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Cyclosemia phidyle Godman & Salvin, [1894], Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 376, 

 pi. 84, figs 7, 8 $. 



MIMOCASTNIA Seitz, [1917], Grossschmett. Erde 5 : 652. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Mimocastnia rothschildi Seitz, [1917], ibid. 5 : 652. 



MIMONIADES Hiibner, 1823, Ziitur. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : 27. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Mimoniades ocyalus Hiibner, 1823, ibid. 2 : 27, pi. [62], figs 353, 354. 



MINEROIDES Bryk, 1930, in Strand, Lep. Cat. 37 : 63 (a ghost-name published accidently 

 through a misreading of a paper by Elwes & de Niceville published in 1887) /. asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, Pt II, 55 : 435. 



This non-existant name was published in a synonymy of the name Papilio Linnaeus, 1758, 

 where it was attributed to Elwes & de Niceville, with the above reference (in which however the 

 word " Bombay " accidentally appeared in place of the word " Bengal "). Reference to the 

 above paper shows that it contains no generic name consisting of the word " Mineroides " 

 but that on the page quoted ( : 435) the above authors did describe a new species under the name 

 " Papilio (Byasa) minereoides ". It cannot be doubted that the alleged generic name noted by 

 Bryk owes its origin solely to a misreading of, and a slight misspelling of, the specific name 

 minereoides Elwes & de Niceville. 



Names published in synonymies possess — under Article 11(d) — no status in zoological 

 nomenclature, and for this reason alone the name Mineroides Bryk, 1930, would be invalid. 

 In order to provide a place for it in the synonymy of the family Papilionidae it seems best to 

 treat this objectively invalid name as applying to a monotypical genus with Papilio (Byasa) 

 minereoides Elwes & de Niceville, 1887, as type-species by monotypy. The taxon represented 

 by this nominal species is currently treated subjectively as being the same as that represented 

 by the older-established nominal species Papilio adamsoni Grose-Smith, 1886, Ann. Mag. nat. 

 Hist. (5) 18 : 149. 



MINETRA Boisduval, [1832], in d'Urville, Voy. " Astrolabe ", Faun. ent. 1 (Lepid.) : 126. 

 Type-species by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 219) : 

 Papilio sylvia Cramer, [1775], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (4) : 68, pi. 153, figs F, G. 



The name Minetra Boisduval is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Parthenos 

 Hiibner, [1819]. 



MINOIS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4) : 57. Type-species by selection by Butler 

 (Feb. 1868, Ent. mon. Mag. 4 : 194 [also by the same author later in July 1868 in Cat. diurn. 

 Lep. Satyridae Brit. Mus. : 61]) : Papilio phaedra Linnaeus, 1764, Mus. Lud. Ulr. : 280. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio phaedra Linnaeus is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same at the species-level, though not at the 

 subspecies-level, as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio dryas 

 Scopoli, 1763 (Ent. cam. : 153). 



MINTHA van Son, 1955, Butts S. Africa (Mem. Transvaal Mus. No. 8) 2 : 76. Type-species 

 by original designation : Dira mintha Geyer, in Hiibner, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 5:15, 

 pi. [147], figs 851, 852. 



The name Mintha van Son is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Torynesis Butler, 

 [1899]. 



