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NINGUTA Moore, [1892], Lep. ind. 1 (12) : 310. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pronophila schrenkii Menetries, 1858, Bull. phys. nat. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 17 : 215. 



NIPARA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 257. Type-species by original designation : 

 Euploea helcita Boisduval, 1859, Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (3) 7, Bull. : clvi. 



NIPHANDA Moore, [1875], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4) : 572. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Niphanda tessellata Moore, [1875], ibid. 1875 : 572, pi. 66, fig. 6. 



NIRMULA Moore, [1906], Lep. ind. 7 (75) : 40. Type-species by original designation : 

 Terias venata Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 

 65, pi. 2a, fig. 2 (larva & pupa). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Terias venata Moore is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a form of the taxon represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Terias laeta Boisduval, [1836] (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., Spec, 

 gen. Lepid. 1 : 674. 



NIRODIA Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 430. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Erycina belphegor Westwood, [August 1851], in Doubleday, ibid. (2) : pi. 70, 

 fig. 1 [relevant text published in September 1851] (: 430 wo/a). 



NISONIADES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 108. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 228) : Papilio bromius Stoll, 

 [1787], Aanhangs. Werk Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : 37, pi. 8, figs 1, iA. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio bromius Stoll is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Papilio mimas Cramer, [1775] (Uitl. Kapellen 1 (3) : 83, pi. 52, 

 figs E, F). 



The genus Nisoniades Hiibner is purely Neotropical in its distribution but was formerly 

 commonly used for the Palaearctic species Papilio tages Linnaeus and its allies which properly 

 belong to the genus Erynnis Schrank, 1801, of which Papilio tages is the type-species. 



NISSANGA Moore [14th Dec. 1880], Lep. Ceylon 1 (1) : 23. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Mycalesis patnia Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Mus. 

 (1) : 232. 



Moore published the name Nissanga as new twice, once (as shown above) in the Lep. 

 Ceylon and once in the Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (1880 (4) : 169) ; in the first of these Mycalesis 

 patnia is the type-species by monotypy, in the second by original designation. The publica- 

 tion of the name Nissanga took place on each of the above occasions in December 1881. In 

 the case of the Lep. Ceylon version publication is known to have taken place on 14th December; 

 no information is available as to the date in December on which Nissanga was published in the 

 Transactions and the name there published ranks as from 31st of that month. Accordingly, 

 the Lep. Ceylon version of the name Nissanga ranks as the first to be published. 



NOCTUANA Bell, 1937, Amer. Mus. Novit. 914 : 7. Type-species by original designation : 

 Helias noctua Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise Fregatte " Novara ", Lep. Rhop. (3) : 

 533. pl- 74- figs 1, 2. 



NOMIADES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (5) : 67. Type-species by selection 

 by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 228) : Papilio acis [Denis & 

 Schiffermiiller], 1775, Ankiindung [sic] eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 182. 



The name — Papilio acis [Denis & Schiffermiiller], 1775 — of the type-species of this genus is 

 invalid, as it is a junior homonym of the name Papilio acis Drury, [1773] (III. nat. Hist. 1 : 

 index et 2). Even if this name had not been invalid in this way, it would still not have been 

 the oldest available name for the present species, for under the Ruling given by the Com- 

 mission in its Opinion 516 names published by Rottemburg in 1775 in the serial Der Natur- 

 forscker are to be accorded precedence over names published in the same year by Denis & 

 Schiffermiiller in their Ankiindung ; and in consequence the name Papilio semiargus Rot- 

 temburg, 1775 (Der Naturforscher 6 : 20), which is subjectively considered to represent the 



