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Type locality. — Mt. Graham, Arizona. The type of this species 

 is not in the Edwards collection, now in the Carnegie Museum at 

 Pittsburgh, Penna. I do not know this species. 



Thanaos clitus Edwards, Papilio, ii, 180, 1882. 



Edwards, Papilio, iii, 65, 1883. 



maestus Godman and Salvin, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Lepid., ii, 457, 1889, pi. 91, 



fig. 18, male. 

 Iristis Staudinger (not Boisduval), Exot. Schmett., pi. 100. 

 Holland Butterfly Book, pi. 45, f. 8, male. 



Wright, Butterflies West Coast, pi. 32, no. 464 is the female of funeralis 

 and not clilus. 



Male. — Expands from 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side of primaries umoer- 

 brown so much dusted with whitish scales and clothed with white hair as to 



Thanaos clitus Edwards. 



discover the ground color only in small patches, as along the hind margin, 

 and also a little within the margin and on basal area the usual extra-discal 

 spots are black, on the upper half of the wing long, acute, below broad, 

 lanceolate; on middle of disk a broad, black cross band, reaching inner 

 margin, and the basal area is mottled with black; a clear brown, but not well 

 defined patch, at end of cell; on costal margin four sub-apical diaphanous 

 dots, three in straight line, the fourth a little inside; a simijar dot in upper 

 median interspace, and one at the end of cell. Secondaries uniform, black- 

 brown; fringes of primaries black-brown, of secondaries white, cinereous at 

 outer angle. 



On under side the spots are repeated, a little enlarged; primaries have a 

 marginal row of white points, sometimes meeting; also an extra-discal series 

 of light-brown patches more or less dusted with white scales; in some ex- 



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