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Excerpt from A Synonymic Catalogue Of Diurnal Lepidoptera
II. In subdividing a genus, the original name should be restricted to the typical section, if this can be ascertained.
Ill. Should the typical section not be ascertainable, the original name may be restricted to any section of the genus, unless it should be proposed to apply the name to a section which does not include a single Species placed in it by the author who first proposed it. The same rule holds good if a generic name is retained which has hitherto been only used in a plate, or in a printed catalogue, without having been then defined.
IV. The name of every genus which has been previously employed in either Zoology or Botany, should changed.
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