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NEBRODA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 228. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Papilio echeria Stoll, [1790], Aanhangs. Werk Uitl. Kapellen Pietev Cramer : 135, 

 pi. 29, fig. 2. 



NECTARIA Billberg, 1820, Ennm. Ins. Mits. JUltb. : 76. Type-species through Section (i) 

 (replacement names) of Article 67 : Papilio idea Linnaeus, 1763, Amoen. acad. 6 : 405. 



The name Nectaria was introduced by Billberg as a replacement for Idea Fabricius, 1807, 

 no doubt in order to avoid a situation of homonymy between the generic name and the specific 

 name of its type-species. Such tautonymy is however permissible under the Code and Idea 

 Fabricius is an available name and its replacement name Nectaria Billberg is in consequence 

 invalid as a junior objective synonym. 



NECYRIA Westwood, [1851], in hnubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 432, pi. 73, fig. 9. Type- 

 species by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 225) : Necyria 

 bellona Westwood, [1851], in Uoubleday, ibid. (2) : 432, pi. 73, fig. 9. 



This is one of the relatively few cases in which in the Gen. diurn. Lep. a plate and its relevant 

 text were published on the same date. The species (with its name misspelled bellina) was the 

 sole species placed in Necyria on plate 73 ; in the text a second species was added. 



NEITA van Son, 1955, Butts S. Africa (Mem. Transvaal Mus. No. 8) 2 : 101. Type-species 

 by original designation : Pseudonympha neita Wallengren, 1876, Ofvers. VetenskAkad. 

 Forhandl., Stockh. 32 (No. 1) : 84. 



NELIA Hayward, 1953, Acta zool. lilloana 13 : 42, figs. 33, 67, 82. Type-species by original 

 designation : Satyrus nemyroides Blanchard, 1852, i)i Gay, Hist. fis. pol. Chile, Zool. 

 7 : 33. Pi- 2, figs 6, 7. 



NELONE Boisduval, 1870, Consid. Lepid. Guatemala : 23. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 225) : Papilio fatima Cramer, 

 [1780], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (23) : 141 (text relating to figs A & B), pi. 271, fig. A, as defined by 

 the specimen figured by Cramer as fig. A on his plate 271 which by a selection here made 

 represents the LECTOTYPE of this species. 



Cramer gave four figures of what he called Papilio fatiuni ; of these he considered the first 

 two (figs A, B) represented the male, the other two (figs C, 1.)) the female. Westwood in 

 1851 (in Doubleday, Gen. diurn Lep. (2) : 447) recognized that the taxon figured as figs 

 C & D was not the same as that figured as A & B ; he retained the name Papilio fatima for the 

 taxon figured as figs A & B, while establishing a new nominal species, which he named Emesis 

 fatimella for that represented by figs C & I). The arrangement made by Westwood was 

 accepted as constituting a First Reviser selection by Kirby in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 

 212) and most subsequent authors, though a few later authors took the opposite view, that is, 

 they applied the name Papilio fatima to the species figured by Cramer as figs C & D on his 

 plate 271, named Emesis fatimella by Westwood. A firm foundation for Westwood's arrange- 

 ment was provided by the lectotype-selection here made in above paragraph. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio fatima Cramer is currently treated as 

 being congeneric with that represented by the nominal species Emesis fatimella Westwood, 

 and accordingly no change at the genus-name level was caused by the lectotype-selection 

 made lor Papilio fatima Cramer, even for those who have misinterpreted that nominal species 

 as being the same as that represented by Emesis fatimella Westwood. The name Papilio 

 fatima Cramer is currently treated on taxonomic grounds as being a junior subjective synonym 

 of Papilio cereus Linnaeus, 1767 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : Errata). Another name which is 

 currently treated subjectively as a junior synonym of Papilio cereus Linnaeus is Hesperia 

 ovidius Fabricius, 1793, the name of the type-species of the genus Emesis Fabricius, 1807, in 

 which therefore both the taxa discussed in the present note are currently placed. 



On the basis of the taxonomic views set out above, the name Nelone Boisduval is currently 

 treated as a junior subjective synonym of Emesis Fabricius. [It must be noted in passing that 

 for some inexplicable reason the name Nelone Boisduval has been misused by some authors as 



