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two generic names. The name Moera Hubner is therefore not a junior homonym of the name 

 Maera [Leach], [18 14]. 



The name Moera Hiibner is however invalid under the Law of Priority, for it is a junior 

 objective synonym of Amathusia Fabricius, 1807. 



MOERIS Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 556. Type- 

 species by original designation : Talides striga Geyer, [1832], in Hubner, Zutr. z. Samml. 

 exot. Schmett. 4 : 32, pi. [127], figs 739, 740. 



MOEROS Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 207, 239. Type-species by original 

 designation : Proteides moeros Moschler, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26 : 334, pi. 3, fig. 16. 



MOLLA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 88, 155. Type-species by original 

 designation : Molla molla Evans, 1955, ibid. 4 : 155, pi. 64, fig. J. 35 (o* genit.) (3 figs). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Hesperia heraea Hewitson was identified 

 subjectively by Evans (1955 (Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 76) with that represented by the 

 nominal species Hesperia mango Guenee, 1865) (in Vinson, Voy. Madagascar, Lep. : 40). 



MOLO Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, contr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 579. Type- 

 species by original designation Hesperia heraea Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred 

 Hesperiidae : 34. 



MOLTENA Evans, 1937, C ai - Afric. Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 7, 139. Type-species by original 

 designation : Proteides fiara Butler, 1870, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1870 : 503. 



MOLUS Hubner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmatt. (5) : 78. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875), Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 220 : Papilio phalanthus Stoll, 

 [1780], in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (28) : 85, pi. 333, figs C, D. 



MONCA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 87, 124. Type-species by original 

 designation : Cobalus telata Herrich-Schaeffer, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 23 : 

 201. 



MONETHE Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 462. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Hesperia alphonsus Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 308. 



MONILE Ungemach, 1932, Mim. Soc. Sci. nat. Maroc 32 : 90. Type-species by original 

 designation : Monile pluricauda Ungemach, 1932, ibid. 32 : 90. 



MONODONTIDES Toxopeus, 1927, Tijdschr. Ent. 70 : 258. Type-species by original 

 designation : Nacaduba argioloides Rothschild, 1916, Rep. B.O.U. Exped. New Guinea 2 

 (No. 15) : 29. 



In the year following the establishment of this nominal genus Toxopeus republished the 

 name Monodontides (1928, loc. cit. 71 : 181, 182) as the name for a new genus in exactly the 

 same sense as that which he had adopted in 1927. 



MONOTRICHTIS Hampson, 1891, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 7 : 179. Type-species by original 

 designation : Mycalesis safitza Westwood, [Dec. 1850], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 

 pi. 66, fig. 3; id., [1852], ibid. (2) : 394 nola. 



The name Mycalesis safitza was, as stated by Westwood, originally proposed in manuscript 

 by Hewitson. It was not published by Hewitson until twelve years after the issue of plate 

 66 of the Gen. diurn. Lep., appearing in [1862], (77/. exot. Butts 3 : [80], pi. [40], fig. 4). 



MONURA Mabille, 1877, Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 1 : 280. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio 

 zingha Stoll, [1780], in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (27) : 53, pi. 315, figs B, C. 



The name Monura Mabille is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, being a junior homonym 

 (a) of Monura Ehrenberg, 1831 (Syn. Phys. Phyt.\ sign.e) and (b) of Monura Gistl, 1848 (Nat. 

 Thierr. : 155). It has been replaced by the name Zingha Hemming, 1939. 



MONZA Evans, 1937, Cat. Afric. Hesp. Brit. Mus. : 7, 160. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Goniloba cretacea Snellen, 1872, Tijdschr. Ent. (2) 7 : 27, pi. 2, figs 4-6. 



