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Latreille in 1810. It was fortunate that this was so, for this choice would have had a most 

 disturbing effect through transferring the name Satyrus from the Palaearctic " Large Browns 

 (known in England as the " Grayling Group "), for which by this time the name Satyrus was 

 in common use, to a species of the Indo-Oriental Lethe-group. Possibly on this account 

 Butler in 1868 (Ent. mon. Mag. 4 194) rejected the above type-selection made by himself in 

 the previous year, substituting for it a selection of Papilio actaea Esper, [1780]. This selec- 

 tion had the merit that it was in harmony with current nomenclatorial practice, but it was 

 invalid, because it was not one of the species cited by Latreille in 1810. In 1872 (Cistula 

 ent. 1 : 62) Crotch sought to select Papilio megera Linnaeus, 1767, as the type-species, but 

 this also was invalid, the species selected not having been one of Latreille's original species. 

 The type-species of this genus was validly fixed in 1875 (Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston 

 10 : 265, 266) as Papilio galathea Linnaeus, 1758, by Scudder who, however, erroneously 

 believed that the name Satyrus Latreille was invalid under the Law of Homonymy. Despite 

 the action described above, the name Satyrus continued in uninterrupted use for the Palaearctic 

 " Large Browns ", though in the early nineteen-thirties a few authors sought to apply it in 

 the sense invalidly suggested by Crotch in 1872, thereby applying it in the place of the long- 

 established name Pararge Hiibner, [1819], while a few others accepted Scudder's technically 

 correct selection of 1875, thus replacing the equally well-known name Melanargia Meigen, 

 1828. 



The name Satyrus Latreille is one of particular importance, having been made the type- 

 genus of the family Satyridae by Boisduval in 1833. It was of the highest importance there- 

 fore that a definitive ruling should be obtained as to the species to be accepted as the type- 

 species of this genus and, moreover, that that species should be one of the large group of 

 species to which the name Satyrus was habitually, though incorrectly, applied. This case was 

 considered by the Commission at its Lisbon meeting in 1935 when approval was given to a 

 proposal advocated by the International Committee on Entomological Nomenclature at 

 Madrid earlier in the same year that instead of ruling in favour of the acceptance of Papilio 

 galathea Linnaeus as the type-species as had previously been regretfully proposed, the Com- 

 mission should use its Plenary Powers to designate as the type-species the nominal species 

 Papilio actaea Esper. This proposal was regarded as being very drastic at that time, in view 

 of the fact that the species proposed to be designated as type-species was not one of those 

 originally cited by Latreille when founding the nominal genus Satyrus. However, this 

 proposal was so obviously calculated to promote nomenclatorial stability and to prevent 

 confusing name-changing that it won immediate and general support. The actual species 

 proposed to be designated as type-species was considered particularly appropriate, it being 

 not only a well-known member of the Palaearctic " Large Browns " but in addition it was the 

 species actually designated — though incorrectly — as the type-species by Crotch as far back 

 as 1868. This proposal commended itself to the Commission which in 1943 (Opin. int. Comm. 

 zool. Nom. 2 : 67-80) promulgated Opinion 142, in which it used its Plenary Powers in the 

 foregoing sense. The name Satyrus Latreille, with Papilio actaea Esper as type-species, was 

 thereupon placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, where it was later allotted 

 the Name No. 596. 



SAUNIA Kirby, 1896, in Allen's Nat. Libr., Lepid. 2 : 301 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Sainia Moore, 1882). 



SCADA Kirby, 1871, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 23. Type-species through Section (i) (replace- 

 ment names) of Article 67 : Salacia phyllodoce Hiibner, [1823], Zutr. z. Samml. exot. 

 Schmett. 2 : 25, pi. [59], figs 339, 340. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Salacia phyllodoce Hubner is currently 

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

 established nominal species Papilio karschina Herbst, 1792 [in Jablonsky, Natursyst. Ins. 

 Schmett. 5 : 26, pi. 83, figs 5, 6). 



The name Scada Kirby was introduced as a replacement for the name Salacia Hubner 

 [1823], which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. Kirby placed eight nominal species in 



