GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 409 



SEPA tie Niceville, iS<>4, /. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 1 1, 63 (No. 1) : 49. Type-species by original 

 designation : Sepa cronus de Niceville, 1894, ibid., I't. 11, 63 (No. 1) : 50, pi. 5, fig. 4. 



SEPHISA Moore, 1882, Proc. zool. Soc. Loud. 1882 : 240. Type-species through Section (i) 

 (replacement names) of Article 67 : Limenitis dichroa Kollar, [844 . in Hiigel, Kashmir 

 4 (2) : 429, pi. 8, figs 1, 2. 



The nameSephisa was introduced by Moore as a replacement of Castalia Westwood, [1850], 

 which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



SERDIA Mabille, 1004, in Wytsman's Gen. his. 17 (C) : 144. Type-species bv original desig- 

 nation : Serdis flagrans Mabille, 1904, ibid. 17 (C) : 144. 



The taxon represented by the nominal s] rdis flagrans Mabille is currently treated 



subjectively on taxonomic grounds ,is a subspec ies of the taxon 'represented by the older- 

 established nominal species Hesperui statins Plotz, 1883 (Stctl. cut. '/It; 44 : n\ [type figured 

 on Plotz's MS. pi. 686]). 



SERICINUS Westwood, 1851, 7*1 H ■ - .' N Lond. (n.s.) 1 : 173. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio telamon Donovan, 1798, Epitome his. China : pi, 27, fig. r [no text 



I he linn' Papilio telamon 1 >onovan is m\ alid, as it is a junior homonym of Papilio telamon 

 Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 486). The oldest available name subjectively applicable 

 to the present species is Sercinus montela Gray (('-. R.), 1852, Cat. lep. Ins. Hiit. Mas. 1 

 (Papilionidae) : 78, pi. 13, figs t, 2 J. 



SI RONIA Kirby, 1 87 1, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 206 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of Sironia 



lliibner, [1823]). 



SESERIA Matsumura, 1919, Thous. his. Japan, A<ldit. 3 : 683. Type-species by original 

 designation : Suastus nigroguttatus Matsumura, 1910, Lnt. Z. 23 : 18] 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Suastus nigroguttatus Matsumura is currently 

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

 established nominal species Satarupa formosana Fruhstorfer, 1909 (hit. ent. Z. 3 : 14c)). 



SETABIS Westwood. [851 , in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) :45c Type-species by selec- 

 tion by Si udder (1875, Proc. amei lead Irts Sci., Boston 10 : 268) : Aricoris (Setabis) 

 myrtis Westwood, [1851], in Doubleday, ibid. (2) : 450, nota. 



The name Setabis was originally devised by Doubleday, by whom il was published in 1847 

 [List Spec. Icp. his. Brit. Mus. 2 : tq). As so published, it was however invalid as a nomen 

 milium, Doubleday giving no diagnosis and placing in this genus only the names of at that 

 time unpublished species. 



SETODOC1S Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billberg. : 78. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 268) : Papilio periboea Fabricius, 



1777, Gen. Ins. : 261. 



Setodocis Billberg is a genus dubium for the reason that it has never been found possible to 

 identify with certainty the taxon represented by its type-species, Papilio periboea Fabricius. 

 Butler in 1868 (Cat. diurn. Lep. Satyridae : 38) considered that this was an " undetermined 

 species " of Euptychia ; in the following year however he changed his view (1869, Cat. diurn. 

 Lep. Fabricius Brit. Mus. : 33), considering that this nominal species represented a form of 

 Mycalesis perseus (Fabricius). In 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 93) Kirby placed Papilio 

 periboea at the end of the genus Mycalesis as an unidentifiable species. The same view was 

 taken by myself in 1934 (Gen. Names hoi. Butts 1 : 29). In the circumstances, the nominal 

 genus Setodocis, of which the above nominal species is the type-species is also undeterminable. 

 The name Setodocis remains however available nomenclatorially and by reason of its early 

 date might well become a serious threat to stability if at any time additional evidence were 

 to make it possible to interpret its t\ r pe-species with certainity. At the moment however no 

 such threat exists and it will be sufficient to include Setodocis at the end of the subfamily 

 Mycalesinae as a genus dubium. 



