GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 457 



VIOLA Evans, 1953, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 3 : 11, 73. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Staphylus alicus Schaus, 1902, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus. 24 : 433. 



VIRACHOLA Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (3) : 104. Type-species by original designation: 

 Deudorix perse Hewitson, [1863], 77/. diurn. Lep., Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 18 ; 2 (plates) : 

 pi. 8, figs 24, 25 o", 26 ?. 



VIRAPA Moore, 1880, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 (4) : 155. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Mycalesis anaxias Hewitson, [1862], III. exot. Butts 3 : [86], pi. [43], figs 25, 26. 



VIRGA Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 84, 98. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Apaustus virginius Moschler, 1883, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 32 : 330, pi. 17, 

 fig. 20 $. 



VIRGARINA Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 : 606. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Sithon scopula Druce, 1873, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1873 : 352, pi. 33, fig. 2. 



VIRGAURINA Eruhstorfer, 1914, Iris 27 (4) : 175 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of 

 I 'irgarina Druce, 1895). 



VISTIGMA Hayward, 1938, An. Soc. cienc. argent. 126 : 452, text-fig. 24 (venation). Type- 

 species by original designation : Vistigma xanthobasis Hayward, 1938, ibid. 126 : 453, 

 text-fig. 25 (2 figs) (J genit.). 



VLASTA Lindsey, 1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 105. Type-species through Section (i) 

 (replacement names) of Article 67 : Eudamus extrusus Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], 

 Reise Fregatte " Novara " , Lep. Khop. (3) : 510, pi. 72, figs 13, 14. 



The name Vlasta was introduced by Lindsey as a replacement for the name Protogenes 

 Mabille & Boullet, 1912, which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. Unfortunately, the 

 name Vlasta brought forward by Lindsey is itself invalid, as it is a junior homonym of the 

 name Vlasta Barrande, 1881 (Syst. silur. centre lioheme 6 : 167). It has, in its turn, since been 

 replaced by the name Rachelia Hemming. 



VOLTINIA Stichel, 1910, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 112 (A) : 72. Type-species by original 

 designation : Esthemopsis (?) radiata Godman & Salvin, [1886], Biol, centr .-amer . , Lep. 

 Khop. 1 : 486, pi. 42, fig. 5. 



VONOMA Moore, 1883, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883 : 257. Type-species by original desig- 

 nation : Euplaea [sic] goudotii Boisduval, [July-Sept. 1833], Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist, nat., 

 Paris 2 (2) : 184, pi. 3, fig. 2 [repaged offprint under the title Faun. ent. Madagascar, where 

 this name appears in part 3 (: 36)]. 



VORATES Godman, [1900], in Godman & Salvin, Biol, centr. -amer., Lep. Rhop. 2 : 577. 

 Type-species by original designation : Cobalus decora Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869, CorrespBl. 

 zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 23 : 201 [repaged offprint as Prodromus ... 3 : 81]. 



WAGIMO Sibatani & Ito, 1942, Tenthredo, Kyoto 3 (4) : 319. Type-species by original 

 designation : Thecla signata Butler, [Apr. 1882], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884 : 854. 



WAIGEUM Staudinger, 1895, Iris 8 : 153-155. Type-species by selection by Waterhouse & 

 Lyell (1914, Butts Australia : 91) : Thysonotis (?) miraculum Druce & Baker, 1893, Proc. 

 zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 : 552, pi. 46, fig. 12 $. 



WALLENGRENIA Berg, 1897, An. Mus. nac. Buenos Aires 5 : 254. Type-species by original 

 designation : Hesperia premnas Wallengren, i860, Wien. ent. Monats. 4 : 38. 



WARRENOHESPERIA Strand, 1928, Arch. Naturgesch. 92 (A. 8) : 74. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Pyrgus antonia Speyer, 1879, Stett. ent. Ztg 

 40 : 342. 



Strand introduced the name Warrenohesperia as a replacement for Ramburia Warren, 1926, 

 which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



