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97, and (2) even if this name had been available as from the Tentamen, it would nevertheless 

 have been invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Nereis Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 

 654). By the Ruling given in the Commission's Opinion 278, the name Nereis Hiibner of the 

 Tentamen was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as 

 Name No. 81. 

 NEREIS Hiibner, [1806], Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pis [1], [2], [5]- [8], [12], [15]. Type-species 

 by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 227) : Papilio poly- 

 mnia Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 227. 



Following the rejection of the name Nereis Hiibner, as of the Tentamen, by the Commission 

 in its Opinion 97, the earliest work in which this name was used in the Lepidoptera became 

 volume 1 of Htibner's Samml. exot. Schmett., in which this generic name was used for eight 

 nominal species. Of these Papilio polymnia Linnaeus was figured on plate [7], and this, as 

 shown above, was selected as the type-species of this genus by Scudder in 1875. The name 

 Nereis Hiibner of the Sammlung is invalid as a junior homonym of Nereis Linnaeus, 1758. 



NERIAS Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : pi. 4 

 [= pi. 4A], pi. 11 [= pi. bB], fig. 6. Type-species by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. 

 amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 227) : Papilio susanna Fabricius, 1787, Mantissa Ins. 

 2 : 16. 



NERULA Mabille, 1888, Le Natnraliste (2) 2 : 255. Type-species by selection by Watson 

 (1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 130) : Nerula nautes Mabille, 1888, ibid. (2) 2 : 255, 3, 4. 

 The taxon represented by the nominal species Nerula nautes Mabille is currently treated 

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

 lished nominal species Hesperia fibrena Hewitson, 1877, {Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19 : 79). 



NESOLYCAENA Waterhouse & Turner, 1905, Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29 (4) : 801. Type- 

 species by original designation : Holochila albosericea Miskin, 1891 (Ann. Qd Mus. 1 : 65). 



NESOXENICA Waterhouse & Lyall, 1914, Butts Australia : 5, 28, 35. Type-species by 

 original designation : Lasiommata leprea Hewitson, 1864, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 : 

 249, pi. 16, figs 6, 7. 



NESSAEA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 41. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 28) : Papilio ancaeus Linnaeus, 1758, 

 Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 486. 



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

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the 

 nominal species Papilio obrinus Linnaeus, 1758 (loc. cit. (ed. 10) 1 : 470). As the specific 

 names ancaeus and obrinus were published in the same work and on the same date, the relative 

 precedence to be accorded to them depends on the choice of the First Reviser. The First 

 Reviser in this case was Hiibner when in [1819] (Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 4) he adopted 

 the specific name ancaeus Linnaeus, sinking the specific name obrinus Linnaeus as a junior 

 synonym. It is to be noted that a good many modern authors, relying apparently on the 

 so-called Principle of Page-Precedence, have incorrectly followed the opposite course. 



NESTORIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (6) : 86. Type-species by selection by 



Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 227) : Papilio gambrisius Cramer 



[1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (14) : 95, pi. 157, figs A, B. 

 NETROBALANE Mabille, 1903, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (A) : 46, 76. Type-species by 



monotypy : Caprona canopus Trimen, 1864, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 : 180. 

 NETROCORYNE Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise Fregatte " Novara ", Lep. Rhop. 



(3) : 5°7- Type-species by monotypy : Netrocoryne repanda Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 



[1867], ibid., Lep. Rhop. (3) : 507, pi. 70, fig. 10. 

 NEURELLIPES Bethune-Baker, 1910, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (1) : 66. Type-species 



by original designation : Lycaenesthus lusones Hewitson, 1874, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond 



1874 : 347. 



