GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 347 



genus Parura Kirby on the basis of the currently accepted subjective identifications explained 

 above. 



PASIPHANA dc I.essc, 1952, Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 121 : 72. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio bathseba Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 235. 



The type-species of this nominal taxon (established by de Lesse as a subgenus of Pyronia 

 Hiibner, [1819]) was for long known by the name Papilio pasiphae Esper, [1781] (Die Schmett. 

 1 (Bd 2) Forts. Tagschmett. : 99, pi. 67, fig. 4 <J) and it was no doubt on this account that 

 de Lesse gave the name Pasiphana to this taxon. The reason why it was necessary to 

 abandon the use of Fspcr's name for this species was that it was found to be invalid under 

 the Law of Homonymy, being a junior homonym of Papilio pasiphae Cramer, [1775] (Uitl. 

 Kapellen 1 (7) : pi. 80, fig. E). 



PASMA Waterhouse, 1932, Anstr. Zool. 7 : 198. Type-species . by original designation : 

 Hesperilla tasmanicus Miskin, [1890], Proc. roy. Soc. Qd 6 : 149-150. 



PASSIRONA Moore, [1897], Lep. ind. 3 (27) : 4<). Type-species by original designation : 

 Tanaecia amisa Grose-Smith, 1889, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 3 : 315. 



When establishing this nominal genus in a rough grouping of genera, Moore designated a 

 type-species but provided no generic diagnosis. He made good this deficiency in the 

 immediately following Part (loc. cit. 3 (28) : 84) published later in the same year. 



PASSOVA Evans, 1951, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 1 : 6, 79. Type-species by original 

 designation : Pyrrhopyga [sic] passova Hewitson, [1866], Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 (6) : 

 482. 



PASTRIA Evans, 1949, Cat. Hesp. Enrop. Asia Australia : 41, 414. Type-species by original 

 designation : Pastria pastria Evans, 1949, ibid. : 414, pi. 29, fig. L.io (<J genit.). 



PAT ALA Moore, [1892], Lep. ind. 1 (12) : 305. Type-species by original designation : 

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



221. 



PATHALIA Moore, 1884, /. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. II, 53 (1) : 21. Type-species by original 

 designation : Pathalia albidisca Moore, 1884, ibid. 53 (1) : 21. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Pathalia albidisca Moore is currently treated 

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

 species Megisba sikkima Moore, 1884 (loc. cit. 53 (1) : 21). As these names were published on 

 the same date and in the same work — actually on the same page — the relative precedence to 

 be accorded to them depends on the choice made by the First Reviser. This choice was made 

 in 1932 (I dent. Ind. Butts (ed. 2) : 220) by Evans who accepted the specific name sikkima 

 Moore, at the same time sinking the name albidisca Moore as a synonym of sikkima, the 

 taxon so recognized being treated as a subspecies of Megisba malaya (Horsfield, [1828]) 

 (Lycaena malaya Horsfield, [1828]). Under the Code (Article 24(a)) the effect of Evans's 

 action is to give precedence to the specific name sikkima Moore and to make the name 

 albidisca Moore a junior subjective synonym of that name. 



PATHYSA Reakirt, [1865], Proc. ent. Soc. Philad. 3 : 503. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 242) : Papilio antiphates Cramer, 

 [1775], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (6) : 113, pi. 72, figs A, B. 



For an explanation of the date here assigned to this generic name see the note given under 

 the name Atrophaneura Reakirt. 



PATIA Klots, 1933, Ent. amer. (n.s.) 12 (3) : 151, 165. Type-species by original designation : 



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



1 : 4*5- 

 PATLASINGHA Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 71, 74. Type-species by original 



designation : Hesperia phigalia Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred new Spec. Hesp. 



(2) : 32. 



