368 FRANCIS HEMMING 



POLITES Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 78. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperia peckius Kirby, 1837, in Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. II [4] : 300, 

 pi. 4, figs 2, 3. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Hesperia peckius Kirby is currently treated 

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

 Papilio coras Cramer, [1775] (Uitl. Kapellen 1 (3) : 51, pi. 31, fig. F). 



POLYARGIA Verity, 1957, Var. giograph. saison. Pap. diurn. France (3) : 436. Type-species 

 by original designation : Papilio achine Scopoli, 1763, Ent. cam. : 156. 



The name Polyargia Verity is invalid, because it does not comply with the requirements of 

 Article 13(a) regarding the " indication " which must be provided by the author of a new name 

 in order to secure its availability. Verity treated this not as a new name but as one pub- 

 lished in " 1953 ". It is considered that this was a slip on Verity's part, as the name 

 Polyargia is not to be found in any known paper of Verity's published in the period 1953-1957. 

 It seems likely that Verity erroneously supposed in 1957 that he had published this name in 

 1953 in volume 5 of his Farfalle diurn. d' Italia, the volume in which he dealt with the family 

 Satyridae to which Papilio achine Scopoli, which Verity designated as the type-species, 

 belongs. 



POLYCAENA Staudinger, 1886, Stett. ent. Ztg 47 : 227. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Polycaena tamerlana Staudinger, 1886, ibid. 47 : 227. 



POLYCHROA Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 78. Type-species by selection by 



Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 253) : Papilio obrinus Linnaeus, 



1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 470. 



As explained in the note on the name Nessaea Hiibner, [1819], the name Papilio obrinus 



Linnaeus is a subjective synonym of Papilio ancaeus Linnaeus, a name published in the same 



work and on the same date, and by a First Reviser choice takes precedence below the name 



Papilio ancaeus. 

 POLYCTOR Evans, 1953, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 3 : 9, 43. Type-species by original 



designation : Pirgus [sic] polyctor Prittwitz, 1868, Stett. ent. Ztg 29 : 186-287 ( as polyotor) , 



pi. [3], figs 3a, 3b (as polyctor). 



POLYCYMA Felder (C), 1862, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 12 : 490 (Invalid because published 

 in a synonymy). 



The name Polycyma was mentioned by Felder when establishing the genus Holochila, 

 stating that it was a manuscript name which Scott had formerly proposed to publish. As a 

 name published in a synonymy, the name Polycyma Felder is invalid under the provisions of 

 Article 1 1 (d) of the Code. 



POLYDORUS Swainson, [1833], Zool. Illustr. (2) 3 : pi. 101. Type-species through Section 

 (d) (tautonymy) of Article 68 : Papilio polydorus Linnaeus, 1763, Amoen. acad. 6 : 401. 



The name Polydorus Swainson is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Polydorus Blainville, 

 1826 (Diet. Sci. nat. (ed. 2) 42 : 332). 



POLYGONIA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 36. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1872, /\th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Arts Sci. 1872 : 30) : Papilio c-aureum 

 Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 477. 



POLYGONUS Hiibner, [1825], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [144]. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Polygenus lividus Hiibner, [1825], ibid. 2 : pi. [144]. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Polygonus lividus Hiibner is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Papilio leo Gmelin, [1790] (in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. 13) 1 (5) : 

 2363)- 



POLYGRAPHA Staudinger, [March 1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 

 (Th. 1) (17) : 182. Type-species by monotypy : Paphia cyanea Salvin & Godman, 1868, 

 Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 2 : 148. 



