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Synonymicalt notes: 



Tatochila orthodice ab. breyeri Breyer, 1939. This was described from a single 

 melanistic female taken at Rio Ochuna, Province of Tucuman, Argentina. The 

 type is in the collection of Alberto Breyer, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



Tatochila orthodice f. inpunctata Breyer, 1939 (corrected to impunctata by 

 Hayward, 1951). This was described from a single specimen (sex not indicated) 

 taken at Rfo Cochuna, Province of Tucumdn, in which the discocellular bar on 

 uppersurface of forewing is absent. The type is in the collection of Alberto Breyer, 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



MisiDENTiFiCATiONs: Berg (1895) refers to a male of this species as 

 Tatochila xanthodice (Lucas). 



Distribution : From the Cordillera near La Paz in Bolivia south 

 into the Province of Catamarca in Argentina. 



Bolivia: Department of La Paz, Province of Nor Yungas, Yanacachi (January); 

 Department of Santa Cruz, Province of Balle Grande, Semaipata (1,500-2,500 m., 

 March). Argentina: Province of Jujuy, Laguinillas (October); Province of Salta, 

 Salta (December), San Lorenzo (April); Province of Tucumdn, Quebrada Cara- 

 punco (November), Quebrada de Lules (January), El Nogalar (September), Rfo 

 Ochuna, Villa Nougues (January): Province of Catamarca, Esquina Grande 

 (November), El Candado (December). 



Material studied: 37 males, 12 females. 



Tatochila sagittata RSber 



Tatochila demodice sagittata Rober, in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 

 vol. 5, p. 57, pi. 18, fig. el. May 25, 1908. — Giacomelli, Anal. Mus. Nac. 

 Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, vol. 26, pp. 406, 408, 414, 415, Mar. 10, 1915; 

 Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., vol. 20, p. 55, pi. 3, fig. 1, June 30, 1916.— Talbot, 

 in Strand, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pars 53, Pieridae I, p. 58, Oct. 24, 

 1932. 



Tatochila stigmadice sagittata Rober, Paravicini, Mitteil. Schweizerschen Ent. 

 Ges., vol. 12, p. 22, May 1910. 



Tatochila sagittata R5ber, Jorgensen, Anal. Mus. Nac. Hist, Nat. Buenos Aires, 

 vol. 28, pp. 443, 464, 465, Nov. 10, 1916.— Giacomelli, Physis, vol. 3, p. 377, 

 1917. — Rober, in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, p. 1015, 

 Jan. 21, 1924. — Forster, VerolTentl. Zool. Staatss. Mvinchen, vol. 3, p. 135, 

 Dec. 1, 1955. 



Tatochila jocrgenseni Rober, in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, 

 pp. 1015, 1016, pi. 194, fig. a4, Jai . 11, 1924.— Talbot, in Strand, Lepidop- 

 terorum caialogus, pars 53, Pieridae I, p. 59, Oct. 24, 1932, 



Venation: As illustrated (fig. 65). 



Legs: With paronychium, claw, and pulvillus as illustrated (fig. 

 79). 



Male: Plate 6, figures 22-22b. Head with outer surfaces of palpi 

 white. Scales behind eyes white. Wings with dark markings dark 

 brown to black. Ground color on uppersm-faces and on disc and base 

 of forewing bolovv^ white. Hindwing and apex of forewing bolow yellow 

 with costal margin and extreme base of hindwing orange and with 



