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MOSCHONEURA Butler, 1870, Cistula ent. 1 : 39, 54. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pieris methymna Godart, [1819], Ency. mdth. 9 (Ins.) (1) : 166. 



MOTA de Niceville, 1890, Butts India Buvmah Ceylon 3 : 18, 345. Type-species by original 

 designation : Myrina massyla Hewitson, [1869], III. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text), 

 Suppl. : 7 ; 2 (plates), Suppl. pi. 3, figs 87, 88 o*- 



MOTASINGHA Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 71. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperilla dirphia Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred new Spec. Hesp. (2) : 

 38. 



MUCIA Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr .-amer . , Lep. Rhop. 2 : 540. Type- 

 species by monotypy : Mucia thyia Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, ibid. Lep. Rhop. 

 2 : 541, pi. 98, figs 42-44 o". 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Mucia thyia Godman is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Hesperia zygia Plotz, 1886 {Stett. ent. Ztg 47 : 94). 



MURGARIA Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 19, 37. Type-species by original 

 designation : Telegonus albociliatus Mabille, 1877, Petites Nouvelles ent. 2 : 162. 



MURTIA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 98. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Mancipium minna Hiibner, [1810], Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pi. [144]. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Mancipium minna Hiibner is currently 

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

 older-established nominal species Papilio pyranthe Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 469). 



MURWAREDA Moore, [1896], Lep. ind. 2 (24) : 263. Type-species by original designation : 

 Charaxes dolon Westwood, 1847, Cabinet, orient. Entom. : 55, pi. 27, figs 2, 3. 



It may be useful at this point to draw attention to what now appears to me to be a mistaken 

 opinion expressed by myself when dealing with this name in 1934 (Gen. Names hoi. Butts 

 1 : 95). On that occasion 1 pointed out that Papilio athamas Drury, [1773], was no longer 

 regarded taxonomically as belonging to the genus Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816, but that the 

 genus Eulepis Billberg, 1820, to which that species and its immediate allies were commonly 

 referred was not available for that purpose ; as I then explained (: 103), this name was 

 introduced by Billberg as a replacement name for Nymphidium Fabricius, 1807, the name of a 

 genus belonging to an entirely different family (the family Riodinidae,) its use for the present 

 Nymphalid (Charaxid) genus being due to an extraordinary blunder by Scudder when in 

 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts. Sci, Boston 10 : 170) overlooking the fact that this was no more 

 than a replacement name for Nymphidium and observing that Billberg had cited as belonging 

 to this genus a nominal species bearing the specific name athamas (a manuscript catalogue 

 name for some Riodinid species), he jumped to the erroneous conclusion that this name, so 

 used by Billberg was the name athamas bestowed upon the present Nymphalid species by 

 Drury in 1773. I then turned to the question of what was the oldest available generic name 

 for the species hitherto placed in the mythical Nymphalid genus Eulepis Billberg, and expres- 

 sed the opinion that the name which should in these circumstances be employed was Mur- 

 wareda Moore. It was here that (as pointed out by myself in 1939) (Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 

 (B) 8 : 137) I made what I now consider was a taxonomic mistake, for I overlooked the older 

 name Polyura Billberg, 1820, the type-species of which (Papilio pyrrhus Linnaeus, 1758) is 

 currently treated subjectively as being congeneric with the type-species of Murwareda Moore, 

 i.e., with Charaxes dolon Westwood, 1847. 



MUSCHAMPIA Tutt, [1906], Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 1 : 218. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Papilio proto Esper, [1805-1808], Die Schmett., Suppl. 1-4 Theils : pi. 123, figs 5 o*. 

 6 $ [no text]. 



The name Muschampia Tutt is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Syrichtus 

 Boisduval, [1834]. Full particulars are given in the note on the name Syrichtus. 



