39o FRANCIS HEMMING 



or, if none of the syntypes of that nominal species has as yet been selected to be its lectotype, 

 the syntype hereafter to be so selected, to be also the lectotype of Pyronia tithone Hiibner. 



PYROTHOIA Verity, 1929, Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 98 : 348. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Pontia pyrothoe Eversmann, 1832, Nonv. Mem. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 2 : 352, pi. 20, figs 

 3, 4 6"- 



The name Pyrotkoia Verity is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Microzegris 

 Alpheraky, 1913. 



PYRRHAGYRA Doubleday, 1844, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1 : 88 [also id., [1848], 

 Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 32] (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of Pyrrhogyra Hiibner, [1819]). 



PYRRHANAEA Rober, [Oct. 1888], in Schatz, in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 



(Th. 2) (4) : 170, pi. 28. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio troglodyta Fabricius, 1775, 



Syst. Ent. : 502. 



The name Pyrrhanaea Rober is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of A naea Hiibner, 



[1819]. 

 PYRRHOCALLES Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (C) : 143. Type-species by 



monotypy : Pamphila antiqua Herrich-Schaeffer, 1863, CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regens- 



burg 17 : 142. 



PYRRHOCHALCIA Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (B) : 85, 89. Type-species by 

 selection by Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 99) : Papilio iphis Drury, [1773], 

 ///. nat. Hist. 2 : index et 26, pi. 15, figs 3, 4. 



PYRRHOGYRA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 43. Type-species by selection 

 by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 261) : Papilio tipha Linnaeus, 

 1767, Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : 776. 



The name Papilio tipha Linnaeus is an Unjustified Emendation of the name Papilio tiphus 

 Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 485). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio tiphus Linnaeus is currently treated 

 as being the same as that represented by the nominal species Papilio neaerea Linnaeus, 1758 

 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 479). Since these names were published on the same date and in the 

 same work, the relative precedence to be accorded to them depends on the choice of the 

 First Reviser (Article 24(a)). In the present case this choice was made by Aurivillius in 

 1882 (K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm 19 (No. 5) : 97), who adopted the specific 

 name neaerea Linnaeus, sinking tiphus Linnaeus as a synonym. The specific name neaerea 

 Linnaeus, 1758, is therefore the oldest available name subjectively applicable to the type- 

 species of the genus Pyrrhogyra Hiibner. 



PYRRHOPYGA Westwood, [1852], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 508 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling of Pyrrhopyge Hiibner, [1819]). 



For a time this incorrect spelling was fairly widely used by subsequent authors. 



PYRRHOPYGE Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 103. Type-species by selection 

 by Scudder (1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : 67) : Papilio bixae Linnaeus, 

 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 485), as defined by the specimen figured by Merian on plate 44 

 of the Ins. Surinam, selected by Hemming (1964 (Annot. lep. (3) : no) to represent the lecto- 

 type ; a taxon bearing a name having precedence below the name Papilio phidias Linnaeus, 

 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) : 1 485), a name published on the same date and in the same work, 

 by reason of the First Reviser choice made by Evans in 195 1 (Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 

 1 : 7 ). 



It was long believed that Papilio bixae Linnaeus, the type-species, was a species occurring 

 both in America and in Africa, the specimens taken in those continents being superficially 

 inseparable. In consequence, an entirely new situation arose when Bell discovered that the 

 genitalia of the " bixae " taken in Africa differed widely from those of the " bixae " taken in 

 America, for the question immediately arose as to which of these species was that to which 

 in 1758 Linnaeus had given the name Papilio bixae. That species was established by Linnaeus 



