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

 currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds either as a subspecies of, or as the same 

 as, that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio orion Pallas, 1775 (Reise 

 durch verschied. Prov. Russ. Reichs 1 : 471). 



The first author to attempt to deal with the question of the type-species of this genus was 

 Tutt ([1906], Nat. /list. Brit Butts 1 : 314) who stated that Papilio orion was the type-species, 

 having been so selected by Kirby in 1896 [in Allen's Nat. Libr., Lepid. 2 : m). Tutt was 

 mistaken in thinking that a type-selection had been made by Kirby, but this would not have 

 detracted from the validity of his statement that the above species was the type-species, asthat 

 statement would have ranked as a type-selection by Tutt himself, if in fact that nominal 

 species had been eligible for selection as type-species. But the nominal species Papilio orion 

 was not cited by Hiibner when he established this genus and it -is therefore ineligible for 

 selection as type-species. Following Tutt's paper, the genus Scolitantides came into common 

 use in the sense which he suggested, but nearly twenty years elapsed before any author validly 

 selected, or specified, as type-species one of Hiibner's originally included species, this not 

 being done until in 1034 ' definitely specified Papilio battus I Denis & Schiffermuller] as type- 

 species. 



SCOPTES Hiibner, [819], Verz. bekemnt. Schmett. (7) : 111. Type-species by selection by 

 Butler (1869, Cat. diurn. Lip. Fabricius Hut. .1/hs. : 176, footnote) : Papilio alpheus 



Cramer, j 1777!, Uitl. Kapellen 2 (16) : 131, pi. 183, figs. E, F. 



When dealing with the genus Scoptes, Butler in the footnote referred to above stated that 

 that genus was the "Capys oi Hewitson", of which Papilio alpheus Cramer is the type-species 

 by monotypy. By this action oi I Sutler's that species became also the type-species of Scoptes. 



SCUDDERIA ('.rote, August 1873, Canad. Ent. 5 : 144. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio 

 antiopa Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 476. 



There is another genus bearing the name Scudderia which was also published in the year 

 1873, and it is necessary to examine the question of the relative priority of these names. The 

 name Scudderia Grote is known to have been published in August 1873; the paper containing 

 the name Scudderia Stal, was published, according to Scudder (1889, Butts East. U.S. Canada 

 ( J ) (3) : 387), in April 1873; it is possible however that publication took somewhat later in 

 that year, it being presentation of the paper and not publication which took place in the 

 month of April. However, the name Scudderia Grote has always been treated as having 

 been published later than Scudderia Stal, and there is no evidence to show that this view is not 

 correct. The name Scudderia Grote is therefore treated here as being invalid under the Law 

 of Homonymy. In 1889 it was replaced by the name Euvanessa Scudder. 



SEA Hayward, 1950, Rev. Soc. ent. argent. 14 (5) : 319. Type-species by original designation : 

 Vanessa sophronia Godart, [1824], Ency. mith. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 823. 



SI~.1S.ILDI A Mabille, 1903, in W'ytsman's Gen. his. 17 (A) : 77. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Papilio busiris Cramer, [1779], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22) : 119, pi. 261, figs A, B, C. 



The name Sebaldia Mabille is invalid, it being a junior objective synonym of Achlyodes 

 Hiibner, [1819]. 



SEBASTONYMA Watson, 1893, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 71, 81. Type-species by 

 original designation : Hesperia dolopia Hewitson, 1868, Descr. One Hundred new Spec. 

 Hesp. (2) : 27. 



SELENOPHANES Staudinger, [1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd. 1 (Th. 1) (18) 

 : 212. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio cassiope Cramer, [1775], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (5) : 

 88, pi. 57, figs A, B. 



SELINDA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 298. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Euploea mniszechii Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1859, Wien. ent. Monats. 3 : 181, 

 Pi- 3. ng- 3- 



