GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 411 



SIDERONE Hiibner, [1823]. Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [56]. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Siderone ide Hiibner, [1823], ibid. 2 : pi. [56]. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Siderone ide Hiibner is currently treated 

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

 shed nominal species Papilio nemesis Illiger, [1801] (Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 1 : 203). [It 

 must be noted here parenthetically that in introducing this and other new names in the paper 

 referred to above, [lliger interpolated a term between the generic and specific name; these 

 intermediate terms do not rank as names for the purposes of zoological nomenclature, having 

 been rejected by the Commission by the Killing given by the Commission in its Opinion 124. 

 In the case here under consideration the name was published as Papilio nobilis nemesis with 

 the unfortunate result that some authors, e.g. Stichel in Seitz, vol. 5 and the Lep. Cat., Part 93 

 fell into the error of supposing that the specific name introduced by Illiger was nobilis and not 

 nemesis.] 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio nemesis Illiger (and therefore also by 

 the nominal spe< ies Siderom ide Hiibner) is currently treated subjectively as a subspecies of the 

 taxon represented by the older-established nominal species Pafilm marthesia Cramer, [1777] 

 (/ ';//. Kapellen 2 (16) : 143, pi 101, figs A, B). 



SIDERONE Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buff on), Hist. not. his., Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : 

 pl. 8 [= pi. B], fig. 1. Type-species by monotypy : Siderone ide Hiibner, [1823], Samml. 

 exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [56]. 



Boisduval attributed no author to the name Siderone ide in the legend to plate 8, but in the 

 leaflet entitled " Explii ation des Planches " he attributed this binomen ( : 3) to Hiibner. If 

 this had been all, it would certainly nave been concluded that Boisduval had corrc tlv 

 attributed to Hiibner not only the specific name ide but also the generic name Siderone. 

 I lowever when in 1870 (Consid. Lipid. Guatemala 151) Boisduval again dealt with this species, 

 he expressly attributed the name Siderotic to himself. There is no evidence anywhere to 

 show whether Boisduval did this solely by inadvertence or whether the name Siderone was 

 originally proposed by himself in manuscript, in which case in accordance with his general 

 custom he would certainly have treated himself as its author, irrespective of whether it was first 

 published by some other writer. In the present case this possibility is unlikely, for Boisduval 

 was only twenty-four \ ears of age w Inn the nunc Sidei one was published by Hiibner. In any 

 case, this matter is of no practical importance, the name Siderone Boisduval being invalid as a 

 junior homonym of, and as a junior objective synonym of, Siderone Hiibner, [1823]. 



SIDERONIDIA Bryk, [939, in Stichel, in Bryk's Lep. Cat. 93 : 720. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio galanthis Cramer, [1775J, Uitl. Kapellen 1 (3) : 39, pl. 25, figs 1), E. 



The name Sideronidia Bryk is invalid on two quite different counts, hirst, it is invalid 

 under Article 13(a) because, being a name published after 1030, it was not accompanied by a 

 statement purporting to give its differential characters. Second, it is invalid as a junior 

 objective synonym of the name Phyllophasis Blanchard, 1840. 



SIDER US Kaye, 1904, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1904 : 195. Type-species by original designation : 

 Siderus parvinotus Kaye, 1904, ibid. 1904: 195. 



SIGNET A YV'aterhouse & Lyell, 1914, Butts Australia : 8, 174, 198. Type-species by original 

 designation : Telesto flammeata Butler, 1882, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 9 : 85. 



SIMISKINA Distant, [Jan.] 1886, Entomologist 19 : 12. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Simiskina fulgens Distant, [Jan.] 1886, ibid. 19 : 12. 



The name Simiskina was published by Distant twice in the year 1886, first (as shown above) 

 in January in the Entomologist and, second, in September of the same year (Simiskina Distant, 

 Sept. 1886, R/iop. malayana : 450). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Simiskina fulgens Distant is currently 

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

 established nominal species Poritia phalia Hewitson, 1874, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 : 345. 



