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and figure which he (Pagenstecher) had sent to him in common with certain other entomo- 

 logists announcing the forthcoming publication of the description of this interesting novelty. 

 It is quite clear therefore that, although Staudinger was the first to publish the specific name 

 paradisea, it was Pagenstecher by whom it was first proposed in manuscript. That 

 Staudinger anticipated Pagenstecher in the publication of this name must presumably be 

 attributed to some misunderstanding between these entomologists in the correspondence 

 which immediately preceded its publication by Staudinger. 



As Pagenstecher cited two specific names {paradisea Pagenstecher and schoenbergi Pagen- 

 stecher) for the foregoing species when establishing the nominal genus Schoenbergia, it is 

 necessary to consider which of the alternative specific names so published should be treated 

 for nomenclatorial purposes as the specific name of the type-species of this genus. In view 

 of the way in which Pagenstecher dealt with this matter in the discussion which he gave, it is 

 considered that the most logical course is to give preference to the specific name schoenbergi 

 Pagenstecher over the name paradisea Pagenstecher; for the name schoenbergi seems to have 

 been introduced as a replacement for the manuscript name paradisea Pagenstecher which he 

 regarded as having been misappropriated by Staudinger. 



The name Schoenbergia schoenbergi Pagenstacher is, as will be seen from the particulars given 

 above, a junior synonym of the name Ornitlioptera paradisea Staudinger, that name having 

 been published in June 1893, the name schoenbergi Pagenstecher having been published in 

 the same year on some later date, which is not precisely known. Since, as has been shown, 

 Ornitlioptera paradisea Staudinger was based not upon a specimen but upon a figure and 

 description of the then manuscript species to which Pagenstecher at that time proposed to give 

 the specific name paradisea, Pagenstecher's specimen must be the type specimen of Stau- 

 dinger's paradisea. The name Schoenbergia schoenbergi Pagenstecher (the specific name 

 schoenbergi being a replacement of the then-unpublished specific name paradisea Pagen- 

 stecher) is thus a junior objective synonym of Ornitlioptera paradisea (Pagenstecher MS.) 

 Staudinger. 



SCHOENBURGIA Rippon, [1893-1896], Icon. Ornithopt. 1 : ix (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Schoenbergia Pagenstecher, 1893). 



SCHOENIS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (2) : 28. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 266) : Papilio delia [Denis & 

 Schiffermuller], 1775, Ankiindung [sic] syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 179. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio delia [Denis & Schiffermuller] is 

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

 older-established nominal species Papilio cinxia Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 480) 

 (the type-species of Melitaea Fabricius, 1807). 



SCOBURA Elwes & Edwards, 1897, Trans, zool. Soc. Lond. 14 (4) : 204. Type-species by 

 selection by Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 100) : Hesperia cephala Hewitson, 

 1876, Ent. mon. Mag. 13 : 152. 



Elwes & Edwards, when establishing this genus, stated that it was the same as that which 

 Watson in 1893 (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 83) had characterized under the misapplied name 

 Isma Distant, 1886. These authors explained that they had been informed by de Niceville 

 that Watson's diagnosis of what he believed to be Isma had been based not upon Isma obscura 

 Distant, the type-species of that genus, but upon a specimen of Hesperia cephala Hewitson. 

 Elwes & Edwards did not consider these species to be congeneric with one another and it was 

 because there was no name available for Hesperia cephala and its allies that they introduced 

 the new name Scobura. They did not designate a type-species for their Scobura and that 

 genus remained without a type-species until in 1925 Lindsey very appropriately selected 

 Hesperia cephala. 



SCOLITANTIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (5) : 68. Type-species by selec- 

 tion by Hemming (1934, Gen. Names hoi. Butts 1 : no) : Papilio battus [Denis & Schiffer- 

 muller], 1775, Ankiindung [sic] eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 185. 



