422 FRANCIS HEMMING 



The case of the name Symphaedra Hiibner was brought before the Commission in 1934 m 

 connection with an application which was designed primarily to secure an assured nomen- 

 clatorial position for the well-known generic name Euthalia Hiibner. The dates of publica- 

 tion of Hiibner's works were very imperfectly understood at the time of the submission of the 

 foregoing application to the Commission, the Hiibner manuscripts which were to throw so 

 much light on this problem not then having been discovered. In consequence, some of the 

 bibliographical data embodied in the application submitted are now seen to have been in- 

 correct. These errors were however of a trivial character and in no way affected the main 

 argument submitted. The proposal placed before the Commission was that it should give a 

 Ruling under its Plenary Powers that the name Symphaedra Hiibner should not be used in 

 preference to the name Eitthalia Hiibner, but that it should be treated as being still available 

 for use by any specialist who on taxonomic grounds might consider these genera as distinct 

 from one another. This decision was embodied in the Commission's Opinion 167 promulgated 

 in 1945 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 2 : 399-410). In 1954 {ibid. 2 : 613-628) the Com- 

 mission by the Ruling given in its Direction 2 placed the name Symphaedra Hiibner on the 

 Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 759, subject to the entry so to be made 

 on the Official List being endorsed in the sense prescribed in Opinion 167. The opportunity 

 presented by the promulgation of this Direction was taken to correct the minor bibliographical 

 errors which, as explained above, had appeared in the application which had formed the basis of 

 Opinion 167. The endorsement so prescribed, as set out in the Official List, when published 

 in book-form in 1958 (: 101) has been quoted in the entry relating to the name Symphaedra 

 Hiibner at the head of the present note. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Symphaedra alcandra Hiibner (the type- 

 species of the present genus) is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being 

 the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio nais Forster 

 1 77 1 (Nov. Spec. Ins. 1 : 73). 



SYMPHEDRA Doubleday, 1844, List. Spec. lep. Ins. Coll. Brit. Mits. 1 : 105 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling of Symphaedra Hiibner, 181 8). 



SYNALE Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 16 (C) : 159. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Papilio hylaspes Stoll, [1781], in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (31) : 145, pi. 365, figs 1, K. 



SYNALPE Boisduval, 1870, Consid. Lepid. Guatemala : 36. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Argynnis euryale Klug, 1836, Neue Schmett. Ins.-Samml. K. Zool. Mus. Berlin 1 : 2, pi. 2, 

 figs 1, 2. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Argynnis euryale Klug is currently treated 

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

 established nominal species Anelia thirza Geyer, [1883] (in Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. 3 : 

 pi. [6]). 



SYNAPTA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1865], Reise Fregatte " Novara ", Lep. Rhop. (2) : 294. 

 Type-species by monotypy : Synapta arion Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1865], ibid. (2) : 294, 

 pi. 36, figs 20, 21. 



The name Synapta Felder & Felder is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Synapta Esch- 

 scholtz, 1829 (Zool. Atlas 2 : 12). 



SYNAPTE Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (B) : 133. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Carystus selenus Mabille, 1883, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 27, Bull. C.R. : lx. 



SYNARGIS Hubner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (2) : Type-species by selection by Scudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 273): Papilio tytia Cramer, [1777], Uitl. 

 Kapellen 2 (11) : 37, pi. 121, figs C, D. 



SYNCHLOE Hubner, 1818, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : 26. Type-species by selection 

 by Butler (1870, Cistula ent. 1:51): Papilio callidice Hubner, [1799-1800], Samml. europ. 

 Schmett. : pi. Pap. 81, figs 408, 409 o*- 



