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As explained in a note prepared by myself in conjunction with M. H. Stempffer (1963, 

 Entomologist 96 : 292-293) it later transpired that the holotype and sole known specimen 

 of the nominal species Psendoliptena bitje (now preserved in the Hope Department of En- 

 tomology, Oxford University) was an entirely artificial species, having no counterpart in 

 nature. In his original description Stempffer had remarked that in general appearance and 

 wing-pattern this specimen showed similarities with the Tetrarhanids but that the genitalia 

 resembled those in Liptena ; he added that the characters of the venation were unique 

 among the Liptenines. The presence of this strange amalgam of characters was fully explained 

 when it transpired that at some stage a Liptenine abdomen had been gummed on to the 

 specimen in question in an ill-judged attempt, apparently, to repair that specimen after its 

 abdomen had become detached. Following this discovery, the holotype of this nominal 

 species was re-examined by M. Stempffer who concluded (a) that the thorax and wings of 

 this specimen (which was in bad condition) belonged to a species of the genus Anthene 

 Doubleday, 1847, which he identified as being probably Anthene lachares Hewitson, [1878] 

 (i.e. Lycenesthes lachares Hewitson, [1878], ///. diurn. hep., Lycaenidae 1 : 225 ; ibid. 2 : pi. 

 91, figs. 33, 34) but (b) the abdomen from which the preparation of the genitalia had been 

 made had been taken from a specimen of Liptena modesta Kirby, 1890 (Ann. Mag. nat. Hr.t. 

 (6) 6 : 270). Thus, on the basis of current ideas the name Psendoliptena bitje Stempffer, 

 1946, is a junior subjective synonym of Lycaenesthes lacheres Hewitson, [1878], and 

 Psendoliptena Stempffer a junior subjective synonym of Anthene Doubleday, 1847. 



PSEUDOLUCIA Nabokov, 1945, Psyche 52 : 32. Type-species by original designation : 

 Lycaena chilensis Blanchard, [1852], in Cay, Hist. nat. fis. Chile, Zool. 7 : 37, pi. 3, figs 

 4a, 4b. 



PSEUDOLYCAENA Wallengren, 1858, Ofvers. YelenskAkad. Fork., Stockk. 15 : 80. Type- 

 species by original designation : Papilio marsyas Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 482. 



PSEUDOMANIOLA YVeymer, 1890, in Weymer & Maassen, in Reiss & Stiibel, Reisen Sud '.- 

 Amer., Lep. : 107. Type-species by selection by Hemming (1043, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 

 (B) 12 : 25) : Pseudomaniola euripides Weymer, 1890, in Weymer & Maassen, in Reiss 

 & Stiibel, ibid., Lep. : 108, pi. 3, fig. 10. 



PSEUDOMANIOLA Rober, [1892], in Schatz, in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 

 (Th. 2) (5) : 222. Type-species by selection by Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Loin/. 

 (B) 12 : 23-24) : Daedalma pholoe Staudinger, [1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, loc. cit. 

 Bd 1 (Th. 1) : 234 ; ibid. Bd 2 : pi. 84. 



The name Pseudomaniola Rober is invalid, as being a junior homonym of Pseudomaniola 

 Weymer, 1890. This was quickly recognized by Rober who in a footnote to the last page 

 of the index (: 284) replaced the name Pseudomaniola just published by himself (: 222) by 

 the replacement name Catargynnis. 



PSEUDOMECHANITIS Rober, 1930, Ent. Z. 44 : 20. Type-species through Section (a) (i) 

 (nov. gen.) of Article 68 : Pseudomechanitis paradoxa Rober, ibid. 44 : 20, text-fig. 



For over ten years it proved impossible to interpret this genus, but in 1941 (Ent. News 

 52 : 276-277) Forbes showed that the taxon represented by its type-species, Pseudomechanitis 

 paradoxa Rober was the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species 

 Ceratinia limpida Haensch, 1905 (Berl. ent. L. 50 (1/2) : 155). On this basis the name 

 Pseudomechanitis Rober thus became a junior subjective synonym of Hvpothyris Hiibner, 

 1821. 



PSEUDOMYLOTHRIS Neustetter, 1929, Int. ent. Z. 23 : 191. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Mylothris leonora Kriiger, 1928, loc. cit. 22 : 21. 



PSEUDOMYRINA Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 : 605. Type-species by original 

 designation : Myrina martina Hewitson, [1869], III. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) 

 Suppl. : 3 ; ibid. 2 (plates) Suppl. : suppl. pi. 2, figs 70, 71 q*- 



