116 Bulletin ofZoologicalNomenclature 51(2)June 1994 Case 2929 Bhatia Distant, 1908 (Insecta, Homoptera): proposed confirmation of Eutettixt olivaceus Melichar, 1903 as the type species M. D. Webb The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD. U.K. Abstract.The purpose ofthis apphcation is to confirm Eutettixl olivaceus Mehchar, 1903 as the type species ofthe leafhoppergenus Bhatia Distant, 1908. Distant(1908) was in fact dealing not with E. olivaceus but with a still unnamed closely related specieswhendescribingBhatia, butnoinstabilitywillresultfromtheconfirmationof E. olivaceus as the type species. 1. ThegenusBhatiaDistant(1908,p. 357,fig. 227)wasestablishedforthenominal species Eutettixl olivaceus Melichar, 1903 (p. 191, pi. 6) from Sri Lanka. Recent studies show that the holotype of E. olivaceus (in the Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic) isadifferent speciesfromthat used by Distant(1908)forhisgeneric descriptionofBhatia. Distant'sspecimens, in theNatural History Museum, London, represent a new species of Bhatia currently being described (Zhang & Webb, in preparation). 2. Since Distant (1908) two further misidentifications of Bhatia olivaceus have been made by Ishihara (1961, p. 243) and by Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy (1983, p. 22), both providing figures which are identifiable as Omanella johnsoni Merino, 1936 (p. 363). A further description by Singh-Pruthi (1934) of'S. olivacea" cannot be positively attributed to either B. olivacea or the new species. Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy (1983, p. 21) proposed a tribe bhatiini, based on their misidenti- fication of B. olivacea (Melichar). At present this poses no problem since O. johnsoni is referable to the bhatiini, and furthermore the name bhatiini is a junior synonym of paraboloponini Ishihara, 1953 (p. 5) (Zhang & Webb, in preparation). 3. This case is referred to the Commission under Article 70b of the Code. I considerthatstabilitywouldbestbeservedbythesimplecourseofretainingEutettixl olivaceus Melichar, 1903 as the type species ofBhatia Distant, 1908. 4. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1) to confirm that the type species ofBhatia Distant, 1908 is Eutettixl olivaceus Melichar, 1903; (2) to place on the Official List ofGeneric Names in Zoology the name Bhatia Distant, 1908 (gender: feminine), typespecies by monotypyEutettixlolivaceus Melichar, 1903, as confirmed in (1) above; (3) to place on the Official List ofSpecific Names in Zoology the name olivaceus Melichar, 1903, as published in the binomen Eutettixlolivaceus(specificname ofthe type species oiBhatia Distant, 1908). BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature 51(2)June 1994 117 References Distant,W.L. 1908. Thefaunao]BritishIndiaincludingCeylonandBurma,vol.4(Rhynchota). 501 pp., 282 figs. Taylor & Francis, London. Ishihara, T. 1953. A tentative check list of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Scienlific Reportsofthe Matsuyama Agricultural College, 11: 1-72. Ishihara, T. 1961. Homoptera of Southeast Asia collected by the Osaka City University Biological ExpeditiontoSoutheastAsia 1957-1958. NatureandLifeinSoutheastAsia, 1: 225-257. Linnavuori, R.E. & Al-Ne'amy, K.T. 1983. Revision of the African Cicadellidae (subfamily Selenocephalinae) (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha). ActaZoologica Fennica. 168: 1-105. Melichar, L. 1903. Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. 248 pp., 6 pis. Dames, Berlin. Merino, G. 1936. Philippine Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Philippine Journal ofScience, 61(3): 307^00. Singh-Pruthi, H. 1934. Studies on the Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Memoirs ofthe Indian Museum, 11(2): 69-99. Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. (In preparation). A generic revision of the Asian and Pacific Selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin ofthe Natural History Museum, London (Entomology).