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an application was submitted to the Commission on behalf of specialists in the Order Diptera 

 for the suppression under the Plenary Powers of Meigen's Nouvelle Classification, for, unless 

 preventive action was taken, the name Phryne Herrich-Schaeffer in the Lepidoptera would 

 have become an available name and would have taken the place of its well-known replacement 

 name Triphysa Zeller. In order to prevent this objectionable development, the Commission, 

 when suppressing the Meigen pamphlet of 1800, used its Plenary Powers also to suppress the 

 name Phryne Herrich-Schaeffer for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of 

 the Law of Homonymy, at the same time placing that name on the Official Index of Rejected 

 and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 1652. This decision was promulgated 

 by the Commission in its Opinion 678, published in October 1963 (Bull. zool. Nom. 20 : 339- 

 34 2 )- 

 PHULIA Herrich-Schaeffer, 1867, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 21 : 105, 144 [re-paged 

 offprint as Prodromus ...2:6, 17]. Type-species by monotypy : Pieris nymphula 

 Blanchard, [1852], Hist. fis. pol. Chile, Zool. 7 (Lepid.) : 14, pi. 1, figs 3a, b. 



PHYCANASSA Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 77. Type-species by 

 original designation : Hesperia viator Edwards, 1865, Proc. ent. Soc. Philad. 4 : 202, pi. 1, 

 fig- 5 ? ["<?"]■ 



PHYCIODES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (2) : 29. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 46) : Papilio cocyta Cramer, 

 [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9) : 7, pi. ioi, figs A, B. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio cocyta Cramer is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Papilio tharos Drury, [1773] (///. nat. Hist. 1 : index et 43, pi. 21, 

 figs 5. 6)- 



PHYLLOCHARIS Schatz, [1886], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 (Th. 2) (2) : 

 71. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio tagis Hiibner, [1803-1804], Samml. europ. Schmett. : 

 pi. Pap. no, figs 565, 566 cJ. 



The name Phyllocharis Schatz is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Phyllocharis Dalman 

 1824 (Ephem. entom. : 21). 



PHYLLOPHASIS Blanchard, 1840, Hist. nat. Ins. 3 : 447, 448. Type-species by selection 

 by Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 29) : Papilio galanthis Cramer, [1775], 

 Uitl. Kapellen 1 (3) : 39, pi. 25, figs D, E. 



PHYSALEA Mabille, 1903, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (A) : 16, 26. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Telemiades vulpecula Plotz, 1882, Berl. ent. Z. 26 : 73. 



PHYSCAENEURA Wallengren, 1857, K. svenska VelenskAhad. Handl., Stockholm (n.f.) 2 

 (i)(No. 4) : 32. Type-species by monotypy : Satyrus panda Boisduval, 1847, in Delegorgue, 

 Voy. Afrique auslr. 2 : 594. 



PHYSCOENEURA Sharpe, 1901, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 8 : 280 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Physcaeneura Wallengren, 1857). 



PHYSCON de Niceville, 1898, /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 12 (1) : 133. Type-species by original 

 designation : Mycalesis pandeaa Hopffer, 1874, (Stelt. ent. Ztg 35 : 39). 



PHYSCONEURA Schouteden, 1926, Rev. zool. afr. 14 : 236 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Physcaeneura Wallengren, 1857). 



PHYTALA Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 77, fig. 2 [text (: 471) 

 published in 1852]. Type-species by monotypy : Phytala elais Westwood, [1851], in 

 Doubleday, ibid. (2) : pi. 77, fig. 2. 



The name Phytala was first published by Doubleday in 1847 (List. Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 2 : 20), but it possesses no status in nomenclature as from being so published, Doubleday 

 giving no generic diagnosis and citing only the name of a manuscript species. 



