GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 367 



PLEBULINA Nabokov, 1944, Psyche 51 : 104. Type-species by original designation : 

 Lycaena emigdionis Grinnell, 1905, Ent. News 16 : 115. 



PLESIOCERA Mabille, 1891, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 35, Bull. : cvi. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Plesiocera filipalpis Mabille, 1891, ibid. 35, Bull. : cvi. 



The holotype of Plesiocera filipalpis Mabille is a female now in the British Museum collec- 

 tion ; Evans has noted (1953, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 3 : 160) that at some stage this 

 specimen lost its head and that later the head of a Satyrid was gummed on to this specimen 

 in its place. 



The taxon represented by Plesiocera filipalpis is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic 

 grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species 

 Lencochitonea pulverulenta Felder (R.), 1869 (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. IVien 19 : 478). 



The name Plesiocera Mabille is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Plesiocera Macquaxt, 

 1 84 1 (M6m. Soc. R. Sci. Lille 1840 : 360). 



PLESIONEURA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 29. Type-species by 

 selection by Butler (1870, Ent. mon. Mag. 7 : 95) : Plesioneura curvifascia Felder (C.) & 

 Felder (R.), 1862, ibid. 6 : 29. 



The name Plesioneura Felder & Felder is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Plesioneura 

 Macquart, 1855 (Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (3) 3 : 180). It has been replaced by the name Notocrypta 

 de Niceville, 1889. 



PLESTIA Mabille, 1888, Le Naturaliste (2) 2 : 146. Type-species by monotypy : Plestia 

 staudingeri Mabille, 1888, ibid. (2) 2 : 146, fig. 1. 



The name Plestia Mabille is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Plestia Stal [1871] (Ofvers. 

 VetenskAkad. Forhandl., Stockh. 27 (Xo. 7) : 76.8 nota). It has been replaced by the name 

 Zcstusa Lindsey, 1025. 



PLOETZIA Saalmuller, 1884, Lepid. Madagascar 1 : 115. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Hesperia amygdalis Mabille, 1 s 7 7 , Hull. Soc. tool. Fr. 1877 : 234, nota. 



PLUMBAGO Evans, 1953, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 3 : 12, 96. Type-species by original 

 designation : Achlyodes plumbago Plotz, 1884, JahresB. uassau. Ver. Naturk. 37 : 14. 



POANES Scudder, 1872, 4th A nn. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sa. 1871 : 76. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperia massasoit Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex lust. 3 : 171. 



POANOPSIS C'.odman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 486. 

 Type-species by original designation : Pamphila puxillius Mabille, [891, Aim. Soc. ent. 

 Belg. 35 : clxx. 



PODALIRIUS Swainson, [1833], Zool. Illustr. (2) 3 : pi. 105. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Papilio podalirius Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 463, nota. 



The name Podalirius Swainson is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of the name Podalirius 

 Latreille, 1802 (Hist. nat. Fourmis : 430), a name which, when suppressed by the Commission 

 in Opinion 151 for the purposes of the Law of Priority, was kept alive for the purposes of the 

 Law of Homonymy. Further, even if Podalirius Swainson were not invalid under the Law 

 of Homonymy, it would still be an invalid name, as it is a junior objective synonym of 

 Iphiclides Hiibner, [1819]. 



PODOTRICHA Michener, 1942, Amer. Mus. Novit. No. 1197 : 3, figs 2, 11. Type-species 

 by original designation : Colaenis euchroia Doubleday, [Sept. 1847], Gen. Hum. Lep. 

 (1) : pi. 20, fig. 3 [text ((1) : 149) published in March 1848]. 



POECILMITIS Butler, 1899, Entomologist 32 : 78. Type-species by original designation : 

 Zeritis lycegenes Trimen, 1874, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 : 337, pi. 2, fig. 7. 



POLA Swinhoe, [1912], in Moore, Lep. ind. 9 (106) : 226. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Ismene ataphus Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 126. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Ismene ataphus Watson is currently treated 

 subjectively as the Ceylon subspecies of the taxon represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Ismene oedipodea Swainson, [1820] (Zool. Illustr. (1) 1 (3) : pi. 16). 



