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faint orange spot at base of hindwing below and with black outlining 

 veins on hindwings below very faint in the male, somewhat stronger 

 in the female. 



Species: 



1. Theochila maenacte (Boisduval), Histoire naturelle des insectes. Species 

 general des l^pidoptferes, vol. 1, p. 517, 1836 (Pieris). 



Tatochila Butler 



Tatochila Butler, Cist. Ent., vol. 1, pp. 38, 51-52, 56, pi. 3, fig. 7, 1870. 



Type: Synchloe autodice HuhneT= Tatochila autodice (Hiibner). 

 Type by original designation (misspelled as T. autodyce). 



Remarks: In Tatochila the female genitalia are rather similar to 

 Hypsochila and Phulia (Phulia). It differs from those genera in 

 possessing a pair of tibial spm-s on the mid and hind legs and from 

 all related genera in the form of the claws. 



Venation: Figm-e 18. Forewing with four radial veins, R5 having 

 anastomosed with R4; Ri usually from one-half to two-thirds length 

 of R2; R2 from distinctly before apex of cell; M2 from well below apex 

 of cell. Hindwing with Cu2 either from near middle of cell and about 

 opposite origin of Rg or with Cu2 distinctly beyond middle of cell and 

 not opposite origin of Rg; distance between bases of veins Sc+Ri and 

 Rg about equal or gi-eater than distance between bases of veins 

 Cu2 and M3; distance between veins Cui and Cu2 greater or about 

 equal to the distance between bases of Rg and Mi. 



liEGs: As in Theochila with a pair of spurs present on mid and 

 hind tibiae. Paronychium (fig. 26) narrower than in Theochila and 

 more pointed distally and about as in Hypsochila, being at least two- 

 thirds as long as claw, constricted near the middle and tapering and 

 with its width at base from one-fourth to one-third of its length. 

 Claw (fig. 26) directed outward with its dorsal margin gradually 

 curved and its long axis divergent from basal margin; relatively long, 

 At least three times as long as its width at base. Tooth usually 

 divergent from distal portion of claw and originating from beyond 

 the middle or sometimes from near the middle {T. microdice), only 

 slightly shorter than distal portion of claw beyond tooth and with 

 its dorsal margin nearly equal or slightly less than width of claw at 

 base, not distinctly longer than this width. Pulvillus (fig. 26) not 

 distinctly broader than width of claw at base, usually more narrow. 



Genitalia: Male (figs. 2, 10) with uncus relatively long and 

 slender, at least as long as its width (in ventral view), usually longer 

 and at least one-half as long as length of tegumen; distal one-third 

 to one-half of uncus finger-like and distinctly swollen immediately 

 in front of tip; behind this finger-like tip there is a long, latero ventral 

 platelike internal ridge on either side, these ridges sometimes appear- 

 ing to be infoldings of the lateral walls; harpe acuminate; subscaphium 



