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Vol.13: no.4
FURTHER NOTES ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF
SOME GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES PROPOSED BY
BOISDUVAL AND LE CONTE IN THE LePIDOPTeRES DE
UAMeRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, 1829-1833-[1834]
by Cyril F. dos Passos
Since the publication of a paper on this subject in The Lepidopterists* News (vol.12: pp.121-122; "1958" [1959]), a communication has been received from Mr. Paddy B. McHenry, of Burbank, California, giving the results of his study of a copy of Boisduval & Le Conte's Lepidopteres de V A merique Septentrionale, 1829-1833-[1834] in the Allen Hancock Foundation Library at the University of Southern California, ex Boston Society of Natural History Library. This copy appears to be complete, although the wrapper for livraison 8 is not of the original issue but of the Rbret re-issue. As a result of this study it appears that three generic and seven specific names proposed in that work will have to be dated and cited from the plates rather than from the text, and that in five of those ten cases the dates of publication of one generic name and four specific names will be advanced by one year. This information is summarized as follows:
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Generic names |
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A ganisthos |
[1833] pl.52 |
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Agraulis |
pl.42 |
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Nymphidia |
pl.37 |
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Specific names |
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Apatura celtis |
[1833] pl.57 |
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Apatura clyton |
" pl.56 |
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Polyommatus cratcegi |
pl.37 |
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Melittea ismeria |
pl.46 |
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Vanessa j album |
" pl.50 |
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Co lias pelidne |
1829 pl.21 |
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Argus pseudarglo |
lus |
[1833] pl.36 |
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Mr. McHenry has questioned also the [June 1833] date of publication of signature 9 containing pp.81-88 and plates 25-27, and it may well be that these should be dated [27 July 1833], but that is a debatable matter concerning which all that can be said positively is that they could not have been published prior to 30 June nor later than 27 July 1833. No synonomy hangs on the solution of this problem.
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