318 FRANCIS HEMMING 



NYMPHOPSIS Reuter, 1896, Acta Soc. Sci. fenn. 22 (No. 1) : 170. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio caricae Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 484. 



The name Nymphopsis is invalid on two counts : First, it is a junior homonym of the name 

 Nymphopsis Haswell, 1885 (/. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 9 : 1025). Second, it is a junior objective 

 synonym of Nymphidium Fabricius, 1807. 



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

 pi. 20 [pi. 4C], fig. 4. Type-species by monotypy : Nymula gnosis Boisduval, [1836], 

 ibid., Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : pi. 20 [= pi. w 4C], fig. 4. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Nymula gnosis Boisduval is currently 

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

 established nominal species Papilio tytia Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (11) : 37, pi. 121, 

 figs C, D. 



NYTHA Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 77. Type-species by selection by Scudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 231) : Papilio hermione Linnaeus, 1764, 

 Mus. Lud. Ulv. : 281. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio hermione Linnaeus is currently 

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

 established nominal species Papilio fagi Scopoli, 1763 (Ent. cam. : 152). 



The name Nytha Billberg is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of the name Hip- 

 par chia Fabricius, 1807. 



OARISMA Scudder, 1872, $th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 75. Type-species by 

 original designation : Hesperia powesheik Parker, 1870, Amer. Entomologist Botanist 

 2 : 271. 



OBORONIA Karsch, 1893, Bed. ent. Z. 38 (1/2) : 229. Type-species by selection by Hem- 

 ming (i960, Annot. Lep. (1) : 35) : Oboronia staudingeri Hemming, i960, Annot. lep. 



(1) : 33- 



This genus was established by Karsch with two included nominal species, but without a 

 designated or indicated type-species. One of the included nominal species was cited by Karsch 

 as " Lycaena elorea Staudinger ". There is however no such nominal species, the reference 

 being to a misuse by Staudinger in 1888 (in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Th. 1 (Bd 1) 

 (Lief. 6) : 270-271 ; ibid. Th. 1 (Bd 2) : pi. 94, row [5], fig. 1 J) of the name Papilio elorea 

 Fabricius, 1793 (Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 194). The taxon described and figured by Staudinger 

 under the above misapplied name was without a name objectively applicable to it until in 

 i960 I established the nominal species Oboronia staudingeri with, as its holotype, the specimen 

 figured by Staudinger on the plate referred to above. As shown above, this nominal species 

 was thereupon selected by myself to be the type-species of the genus Oboronia Karsch. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Oboronia staudingeri Hemming is currently 

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

 nominal species Plebeius punctatus Dewitz, 1879 (Nova Acta Leop. Carol. 41 (Pars 2) (No. 2) : 

 205, pi. 26, fig. 15). [Note : From a bibliographical point of view the serial in which the 

 foregoing name was published is confusing owing to the multiplicity of separately paged 

 units in which it was published. Moreover, there are confusing double titles for the plates, 

 that on which the above species was figured bearing in addition to the number " 15 " the 

 supplementary title " Africanische Tagschmetterlinge Taf. 2 ".] The foregoing synonym 

 was first suggested by Karsch in 1895 (Ent. Nadir. 21 : 299) and has been accepted ever since. 

 Thus, the arrangement made in i960 (as described above) ensures the continued use of the 

 name Oboronia Karsch in its accustomed sense. 

 OCALIS Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 371. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Oressinoma typhla Doubleday, [1849], Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 62, fig. 5 [text by 

 Westwood published in 1851 (loc. cit.) (2) : 372]. 



