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TELEGONUS. 



Telegonus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 104 (1816) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 25. 



The well-known T. anaphus is the type of this genus, which contains eight or ten 

 other species, all of them closely allied in structure, though differing considerably in 

 coloration. The next genus, Thymele, in many respects resembles Telegonus, but the 

 males of the latter may always be distinguished by the absence of a costal fold to the 

 primaries. 



The antenna? have a slightly thickened club, which is usually bent about the middle 

 to a right angle and terminates in a sharp point. The terminal joint of the palpi is 

 short and subcorneal, projecting slightly beyond the thickly-set scales of the second 

 joint. The cell of the primaries is about two-thirds as long as the wing ; the upper 

 discocellular is very short, the middle and lower subequal and in a straight oblique line 

 to the axis of the wing ; the first median segment is about half the length of the second 

 and equal to the third, to which a recurrent nervule is attached a little beyond the 

 middle. The secondaries are slightly produced at the anal angle ; the discocellulars 

 very slender, the second median branch emitted just before the end of the cell. The 

 hind tibise with two pairs of spurs and a dorsal crest of hairs. 



Compared with Acolastus, Telegonus has a more slender club to the antennae and the 

 terminal hook is considerably longer. 



This is a purely Neotropical genus of wide range — reaching Mexico, but not passing 

 beyond to the northward. 



a. No transverse diaphanous band on the primaries. 

 a. No blue on the uppersicle of the body and base of the wings. 



1. Telegonus anaphus. (Tab. LXXVIT. fig. 10 <j .) 



Papilio anaphus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 178. f. F 1 . 

 Telegonus anaphus, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 367 2 . 

 Mthilla anaphus, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1882, p. 257 3 . 



Alis brunneis ; anticis fasciis indistinctis fuscis notatis ; posticis ad angulum analem fulvis, fascia indistincta 

 discali fusea : siibtus ochraceo atomatis et fasciatis ut in pagina superiore; posticis ad angulum analem 

 late fulvis. 

 § mari similis. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova {Edge, Biimeli), Orizaba (F. D. G.), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 

 Sierra Madre de Tepic (Richardson), Jalisco (Schumann), Dos Arroyos (H. H. Smith), 

 Oaxaca (Fenoehio), Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; Beitish Hondueas, Corosal (Roe) ; Guate- 

 mala, Chiacam, Panima (Champion), San Geronimo, Duefias (F. JD. G. & 0. S., Cham- 

 pion), Pacific coast (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Zapote (Champion); Hondueas, Ruatan I. 

 (Gaumer); Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica ( Van Patten 2 ), Irazu, 



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