454 FRANCIS HEMMING 



URBICOLA Tutt, 1905, Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 1 : 84. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio comma Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 484. 



Tutt attributed the name Urbicola to Barbut, but in this he was in error for that author 

 had not used that term as a generic name. In fact, it was Tutt himself who was the first to 

 use the word Urbicola as a generic name, which is therefore attributable to him. The name 

 Urbicola Tutt is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Hesperia Fabricius, 1807. 



USSURIANA Tutt, [1907], Nat. Hist. Brit Butts 2 : 276. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Thecla michaelis Oberthur, 1880, Etud. ent. 5 : 19, pi. 5, fig. 2 $. 



UTICA Hewitson, [1865], ///. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 56. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Utica onycha Hewitson, [1865], ibid. 1 (text) : 56 ; 2 (plates), pi. 24, figs 11, 12. 



The name Utica Hewitson is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Utica White, 1847 

 {List. Crust. Coll. Brit. Mus. : 45) [also id., 1847, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 15 (175) : 85]. 



VACCINIA Forster, 1938, Mitt, miinchn. ent. Ges. 28 : 112 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Vacciniina Tutt, [1909]). 



VACCINIINA Tutt, [April 1909], Nat. Hist. Brit Butts 3 : 154. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio optilete Knoch, 1781, Beitr. Insekengesch. 1 : 76, pi. 5, figs 5, 6 $. 



Tutt published the name Vacciniina as a new name twice almost simultaneously. The 

 first occasion was in April 1909 in the work cited above ; the second in [May 1909] {Ent. Rec. 

 21 : 108). 



VACERRA Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 521. 

 Type-species by original designation : Hesperia litana Hewitson, 1866, Trans, ent. Soc. 

 Lond. (3) 2 : 494. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Hesperia litana is currently treated sub- 

 jectively on taxonomic grounds as being a subspecies of the older-established nominal species 

 Hesperia bonfilius Latreille, [1824], {Ency. meth. 9 (Ins.) (2) : 748). 



V A DEB A Schatz, [1886], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Th. 2 (2) : 82 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling of Vadebra Moore, 1883). 



VADEBRA Moore, [Oct. 1883], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 (3) : 260. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio climena Stoll, [1782], in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (33) : 207, pi. 389, 

 figs E, F. 



VADEBRA Moore, [April 1884], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 (4) : 528. Type-species by original 

 designation : Deudorix petosiris Hewitson, [1863], ///. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 22 ; 

 2 (plates), pi. 9, figs 30, 31 <J. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Deudorix petosiris Hewitson is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being a subspecies of that represented by 

 another nominal species established on the same date and in the same work, namely Deudorix 

 pheretima Hewitson, [1863] {III. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 21 ; 2 (plates) : pi. 9, 

 figs 28, 29 (J, 27 $). Since these names were published simultaneously, the question as to 

 which is to be accorded precedence over the other depends on the choice of the First Reviser. 

 In the present case the First Reviser appears to have been Evans, when in 1927 {Ident. ind. 

 Butts (ed. 1) : 192) he treated the above nominal species as representing subspecies of a 

 single species and adopted the name pheretima Hewitson as the name to be used for the species 

 as a whole, employing the name petosiris Hewitson as the name for the taxon which he 

 treated as being a subspecies of pheretima. Under this choice the name pheretima takes 

 precedence over the name petosiris. 



In introducing the name Vadebra for the present Lycaenid genus, Moore overlooked the 

 fact only a year earlier he had employed the same word as a new name for a Danaid genus, 

 the particulars relating to which have been given immediately above. The name Vadebra 



