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Method of identification: By means of characters mentioned in 

 the original description that are quite adequate for the identification 

 of this name. 



Synonymical notes: As shown in the references above, a number 

 of workers have misspelled the name by dropping the first ''a." 



MisiDENTiFiCATiONs: Jorgenseii (1916), Rober (1924), and Breyer 

 (1939) have all confused some specimens of T. maenacte witli T. 

 maenacte itatiayae and, in addition, have misspelled the latter. 

 Mabilde (189G) has mistakenly identified this species as Pieris 

 automata Berg. 



Distribution: Province of Buenos Au-es in Argentina north into 

 Paraguay and northwest into the states of Santa Catarina and 

 Parana in Brazil. 



Argentina: Province of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. Paraguay: no specific 

 record. Brazil: State of Santa Catarina, Joinville; State of ParanA, Castro. 



Material studied: 7 males, 12 females. 



Theochila maenacte itatiayae (Foetterle) 



Pieris itatiayae Foetterle, Rev. Mus. Paulista, vol. 5, pp. 624-627, pi. 16, fig. 5, 



1902. — Jorgensen, Anal. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, vol. 28, p. 473, 



Nov. 10, 1916.— Giacomelli, Physis, vol. 3, No. 15, p. 379, 1917.— Zikdn, 



Ent. Rundschau, vol. 45, p. 7, Jan. 15, 1928. 

 Pieris itaticayae Foetterle, Rober nee Foetterle (a misspelling), in S(!itz, Gross- 



Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, p. 60, pi. 19, fig. dl, 1908; ibid, vol. 5, p. 1016, 



Jan. 21, 1924. 

 Synchloe maenacte itatiayae (Foetterle), D' Almeida, Arq. Zool. Estado de Sao 



Paulo, vol. 2, p. 300, pi. 1, figs. 1, 5, Jan. 3, 1941. 

 Leptophobia itaticayae Foetterle, Talbot nee Foetterle (a misspelling), in Strand, 



Lepidopterorum catalogus, pars G6, p. 52, 1935. 



Venation: Not illustrated, not different from typical maenacte. 



Legs: With paronychium, claw, and pulvillus not illustrated, not 

 different from the typical subspecies. 



Male: Plate 1, figure 2. This subspecies is quite similar to 

 typical T. maenacte, differing chiefly in having the fuscous on apex of 

 forewing covering a considerably larger area and usually with dark 

 scaling along veins on hindwing below slightly more distinct. 



Length of forewing, 22-28 mm. (average, 25 mm.). 



Male genitalia not illustrated, not different from the genitalia of 

 tj^pical T. maenacte. The genitalia of four males were studied. 



Female: Plate 1, figure 2a. Palpi as in the male but all five 

 females available for study lacked the orange scaling behind the eyes 

 (in four of these the heads were in poor sliape). Wings similar to 

 females of T. maenacte maenacte with fuscous on apical area more 

 extensive and forming a more solid band. Wings below not distin- 

 guishable from the typical subspecies. 



