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Thanaos terentius Scudder and Burgess, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



xiii, 292, 1870. 

 Scudder, Butterflies New Eng. and Can., ii, 1490, pi. 9, f. 15, 1889. 

 ovidius Scudder and Burgess, Proc. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist., xiii, 295, 1870. 

 naevius Lintner, Papilio, i, 69, 1881. 



Lintner in his description of naevius says, "This may possibly be the 

 A'^. ierenlius of Scudd.-Burg., based on the genital armature; but as the 

 differences presented between the genitalia of this species, which have been 

 carefully observed, and those of A'^. terentius are described and illustrated, 

 are greater than those which serve to separate other of the genitalic species, 

 it would not be proper to accept the two as identical." 



The males (one wing) expand 16 to 18 mm. 



This is a dark, smoky species with none, one, or sometimes two 

 small vitreous spots, below the ordinary costal series, the latter 



Thanaos terentius Scudder and Burgess. 



numbering, sometimes three and sometimes four, otherwise the 

 wing is nearly immaculate. The species is very close to horatius 

 in appearance, but the latter is larger, lighter in color and the mark- 

 ings less obscure. The type locality was Florida and the types of 

 naevius Lintner were three males collected at Indian Eiver, Florida. 

 Distribution. — According to Scudder the species is found from 

 Connecticut and Massachusetts to Florida. 



Records. — Wilmington, North Carolina, VII, 13; Morganton, North 

 Carolina, (Morrison); Isle of Pines, South Carolina, VII; Atlanta', Georgia; 

 St. Augustine, (Johnson); Sanford, Key West, Miami, I, 20 to 30, II, 6, 



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