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established nominal species Globiceps paradoxa Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1869 (Petites Nonvelles 

 ent. 1 (8) : [31]). 



In addition to being the type-species of Globiceps Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1869, the name 

 of which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, the nominal species Globiceps paradoxa is 

 the type-species of the replacement genus Gonophlebia Felder (R.). June 1870 (Petites 

 Nouvelles ent. 2 (24) : 95). Thus, the names Gonophlebia and Pseudopontia are subjective 

 synonyms of one another, the nominal species which are the respective type-species of these 

 genera being considered to represent the same taxon. Both these names were published in 

 1870, Gonophlebia in June and Pseudopontia in September. Under the Law of Priority 

 therefore Pseudopontia should be sunk as a junior subjective synonym of Gonophlebia. There 

 would however be strong objections to the adoption of this course. For, whereas the name 

 Gonophlebia is virtually unknown, the name Pseudopontia is in universal use for this isolated 

 genus. It has moreover been taken as the base for the family-group name Pseudopontiinae 

 which was established for this genus by Reuter as long ago as 1897. 



In these circumstances, an application has been submitted to the Commission for the 

 suppression of the name Gonophlebia Felder (R.) in the interests of nomenclatorial stability, 

 thus making its junior subjective synonym Pseudopontia l'lotz, the oldest available name for 

 the genus here in question. In accordance with the provisions of Article 80, the existing 

 usage of Pseudopontia as the name for this genus is here maintained, pending the publication 

 of the decision of the Commission on the application referred to above. 



PSEUDORATHORA Reuss, 1926, Dents, ent. Z. 1926 (1) : 68. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Rathora isaeae [sic] f. geogr. isaeoides Reuss, 1025, Iris 39 (4) : 218. 



Reuss placed in this genus two nominal species, the above and also what he called " isaeea 

 Doubleday " (i.e. Argynnis issaea [sic] Doubleday, [1848], Gen. diurn. Lep. (1) : 174). This 

 name was attributed by Doubleday to Gray by whom it had been published in a slightly 

 different spelling in 1846 (Argynnis isaeea Gray, 1846, Descr. Lepid. Ins. Nepal : 11). Both 

 as published by Gray and as republished two years later by Doubleday, this name was a 

 nomen nudum. So also it was when next republished, this time by Moore in 1857 (in Hors- 

 field & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy. 1 : 156). Unfortunately, this name has 

 been accepted by all subsequent authors as having been first validly published by one or 

 other of the above authors. It is still far from clear by whom, when and where it was first 

 validly published with a description or indication. This latter point is not of direct import- 

 ance in the present connection, for, as will be seen from the foregoing particulars, the name 

 " isaeea Doubleday " cited by Reuss as the name of one of the species regarded by him as 

 belonging to his new genus Pseudorathora was a nomen nudum and in consequence cannot be 

 taken into consideration for selection as the type-species of this genus. Accordingly, 

 Rathora isaeae (sic] f. geogr. isaeoides Reuss, 1926, was the sole duly established nominal 

 taxon cited by Reuss as belonging to the genus Pseudorathora and is therefore its type-species 

 by monotypy. By way of explanation, it should be added that in the paper of 1926 (: 68) 

 in which the name Pseudorathora was published, Reuss gave structural reasons for the view 

 that the taxon to which in the previous year he had given the species-group name isaeoides 

 should be treated as a distinct species and not as a geographical form of isaea. 



PSEUDOSARBIA Berg, 1897, An. Mus. nac. Buenos Aires 5 : 256. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Pseudosarbia phoenicicola Berg, 1897, ibid. 5 : 256 et Errata. 



The specific name of the type-species was misspelled phoenicola in the main text, but this 

 was corrected to phoenicicola in the Errata published in the same Part of the above serial. 



PSEUDOSCADA Godman & Salvin, [1879], Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1 : 55. Type- 

 species by original designation : Ithomia pusio Godman & Salvin, 1877, Proc. zool. Soc. 

 Lond. 1877 : 61. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Ithomia pusio Godman & Salvin is currently 

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

 older-established nominal species Ithomia utilla Hewitson, [1856] (III. exot. Butts 1 : [51], 

 pi. [26], fig. 101). 



