GENERIC NAMES 01 BUTTERFLIES 415 



S0SP1TA Hewitson, 1861], ///. exot. Butts 2 : [91], Type-species by selection by Scudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 269) : Taxilia fylla Westwood, [6th Aug. 

 1851], in I toubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 60, fig. 3 [text (: 422) published on 6th Septem- 

 ber 1851]. 



The name Sospita Hewitson is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Sospita Mulsant, 1846 

 (Hist. nat. CoUopt. J-'r. (Securip.) : 137). 



It may conveniently be noted at this point that in 1030 [in Strand's Lep. Cat. 38 : log, ; 

 ibid. 40 : no) Stichel overlooked Scudder's selection of Taxila fylla Westwood as the tvpe- 

 species of Sospita Hewitson and fell into the error of removing that species from that genus, 

 placing it in Abisara Felder (('.) & Felder (U.) p at the same time employing Sospita as the name 

 for a genus containing Sospita segecia 1 Iewitson, [1861 1 and its immediate allies. The genus to 

 which Stichel improperly applied the name Sospita Hewitson already possessed an available 

 name objectively applicable to it, namely Praetaxila Fruhstorfer, [191 | 



SOSTRATA Godman & Salvin, [895 , Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 31)7. Tvpe-species 

 by selection by Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 101) : Leucochitonea scintillans 

 Mabille, 1876, Ann. Sot ent. I'r. (5) 6, Hull. : cc. 



The taxon represented by the nominal Leucochitonea scintillans Mabille is currently treated 

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

 established nominal spec ies Hesperia bifasciata Menetries, [829 {Nouv. Mem. Soc imp. Nat. 

 Moscou 1 : 193, pi. 7, figs 6, 7). 



SOV1A Evans, 1949, ( at. Hesp Eur op. Isia Australia , 27, 246. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperilla lucasii Mabille, [876, Ann. Soc. nit. I'r (5) 6, Hull. : cliii. 



SPALGIS Moore, 1X7(1, Proc. zool. Sot. I. tout. 1879 : 137. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Geridus [sic] epeus Westwood, 5th Dec. 1851 , in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 76, 



fig. 5 [in the text (: 502)] published on 20th April 1852 as Lucia epius [sic]. 



SPATHILEPIA Butler, 1X70, Ent. mon. Mag. 7 : 57. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio clonius Cramer, [1775J, Uitl. Kapellen 1 (7) : 120, pi. 80, figs C, I » 



SPEYERIA Scudder, 1872, 4/// Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1871 : \\ rype-species 1>\ 

 original designation : Papilio idalia Drury, [1773], /// nat. Hist. 1 : index et 25, pi. 13, 

 figs 1, 2, 3. 



SPHAENOGONA Hutler, 1870, Cistula cut. 1 : 35, 44. Type-species by monotypy : Terias 

 bogotana Felder (C.) &. Felder (R.), 1861, Wien. cut. Monats. 5 : 84. 



Butler established this genus in a very unsatisfactory way, for he designated as its type- 

 species a nominal species which he called Sphaenogona ectriva for which no description had 

 been published, the name in question being nothing but a notnen nudum. The curious thing 

 is that Butler was fully aware of the fact that the above name had never been published with a 

 description, for a year later (1871, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1871 : 527) he stated that the type 

 species was an undescribed species. The name Sphaenogona ectriva was not validly published 

 with a description until it was so published by Hutler in 1873 (Cistula ent. 1 : 175). 



Since there existed no duly established nominal species bearing the name Sphaeonogona 

 ectriva at the time when Butler established the nominal genus Sphaenogona, Butler's type- 

 selection is invalid, for a manuscript species bearing a uomcu nudum is not eligible to become 

 the type-species of a genus. The only other nominal species placed in Sphaenogona by 

 Butler in 1870 was Terias bogotana Felder (C.) & Felder (R.) 1861, and, as this had been duly 

 provided with a description by its authors, it was eligible to become the type-species and did 

 in fact become the type-species by monotypy. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Terias bogotana Felder (C.) & Felder (R.) is 

 currently treated subjectively as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Terias mexicana Boisduval, [1836] (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., 

 Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : 665, pi. 19 [= 3C], fig. 1. 



