GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 315 



same taxon as that represented by the nominal species Papilio acis [Denis & Schiffermuller], 

 1775, is according to current taxonomic ideas the oldest available name subjectively applicable 

 to the type-spci ies Of the present genus. 



NORA de Niceville, 1893, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 8 : 54. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Adolias kesava Moore, 1859, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 : 67, pi. 3, fig. 5 q*. 



NORDMANNIA Tutt, [1907], Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 2 : 143. Type-species by original 

 designation : Lycaena myrtale King, 1834, in Ehrenberg, Sym. Phys. Ins., 4, signature : 1, 

 pi. 40, figs 15, 16. 



NOSPHISTIA Mabille & Boullet, 1908, Ann. Sci. not., tool. (9) 7 : 173, 107. Type-species by 



monotypy : Pyrrhopyga [sic] perplexus Mabille, 1878, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 21 : 20. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Pyvrhopyga perplexus Mabille is currently 



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



older-established nominal species Pyrrhopyga zonara Hewitson, 1866 (Trans, ent. Soc. l.n>ul. 



(3) 2 : 480). 

 NOSPHITTIA Mabille, 1912, in Wagner's l.ep. Cat. 9 : 12 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 



of Nosphistia Mabille & Boulett, 1908). 



The same misspelling was published by Draudt m 1 <>2 1 ^ [in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 5 : 



845). 

 NOTARTHRINUS Chapman, 1908, Proc. zoo/. Soc. Lond. 1908 : 677. Type-species by 



original designation : Notarthrinus binghami Chapman, 1908, ibid. 1908 : 678, pi. 38, 



pi. 38, fig. 2 (<$ genit.) 



NOTHEME YVestwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. I.ep. (2) : 462. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Papilio ouranus Stoll, 11781], in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (28) : 88, pi, 335, 

 fig. C. 



The taxon represented by the nominal spei ies Papilio ouranus Stoll is currently treated as 

 being the same as that represented by the nominal species Papilio eumeus Fabricius, 1781 

 (Spec. Ins. 2 : 63) and is commonly known by that name, which however is invalid, being a 

 junior homonym of Papilio eumeus Drury, [1773] (III- nat. Hist. 1 : index et 4). The oldesl 

 available name subjectively applicable to the present species is Phalaena erota Cramer, [1780] 

 (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (2^) : 152, pi. 276, fig. G), the taxon represented by which was, it will be 

 noted, misidentified by Cramer as a moth. For the reasons explained above, the specific 

 name erota Cramer is thus subjectively the valid name for the present species. 



NOTOCRYPTA de Niceville, 1889, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 4 : 188. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Plesioneura curvifascia Felder (C.) cV 

 Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 29. 



The name Notocrypia was introduced by de Niceville as a replacement for Plesioneura 

 Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



NYCHITONA Butler, 1870, Cistula ent. 1 : 34, 41. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio dorothea Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 194. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio dorothea Fabricius is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Papilio alcesta Stoll, [1782] (in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (32) : 

 175. P>- 379. figs A, B). 



NYCTALEMON Dalman, 1825, K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm, 1824 (No. 2): 407. 

 This genus was erected by Dalman in a revision of the genus Castnia, at that time errone- 

 ously believed to be a genus of butterflies. He placed two species in Nyctalemon, both of 

 which were originally described as being butterflies, namely Papilio orontes Linnaeus, 1767, 

 and Papilio patroclus Linnaeus, 1758, both of which are moths. 



NYCTELIUS Hayward, 1948, Acta zool. lilloana 5 : 99. Type-species by original designation : 

 Hesperia nyctelius Latreille, [1824], Ency. mdth. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 746. 



