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riiary), Putre (3,650 m. and 2,800 m., February), Lorancahua, two (2,800 m. 

 February). Argentina: Province of Catamarca, El Candado (March); Province 

 of Mendoza, Funes (January). 



Material studied: 18 males, 7 females. 



Tatochila microdice arctodice Staudinger 



Tatochila microdice arctodice Staudinger, Lepidopteren, in Hamburger Magal- 

 haensische Sammelreise, vol. 2, art. 6, pp. 19-21, 1898. — Rober, in Seitz, 

 Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, p. 56, May 25, 1908. — Giacomelli, 

 Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., vol. 20, p. 57, June 30, 1916. — Jorgensen, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, vol. 28, pp. 452-453, Nov. 10, 1916.— 

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

 Oct. 24, 1932. 



Tatochila xanthodice Lucas, Rober nee Lucas (a misidentification of male), in 

 Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, p. 56, pi. 18, fig. d4, May 

 25, 1908. 



Tatochila arctodice Staudinger, Giacomelli, Anal. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos 

 Aires, vol. 26, pp. 406, 411, 414, 415, Mar. 10, 1915.— Campos-R., Rev. 

 Col. Nac. Vicente Rocafuerte, vol. 9, p. 80, 1927. — Apolinar, Rev. Acad. 

 Colombiana Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., vol. 4, p. 349, December 1941. — 

 Brown, Colorado Coll. Pub., gen. ser.. No. 233, p. 20, May 1942. 



Tatochila microdice f. arctodice Staudinger, Giacomelli, Physis, vol. 3, p. 374, 

 1917. 



Male: Plate 4, figure 14. Head as in T. microdice macrodice. 

 Wings above and below very similar to that subspecies, differing only 

 in lacking the submarginai series of dark sagittate markings between 

 veins on both surfaces of hindwings and in having the wedge-shaped 

 marks at end of veins on upper surface of hindwing greatly reduced. 

 These markings are sometimes represented only by faint linear bars. 



Length of forewing, 22-28 mm. (average, 25.8 mm.). 



Female: Plate 4, figure 14a. Head with scales behind eyes orange 

 and with outer face of palpus yellow to orange. Wings above quite 

 unlike the male, most like female of T. m. macrodice, usually with dark 

 color even more extensive, sometimes almost obliterating the ground 

 color. A few females occur with this dark coloring almost absent on 

 the hindwing except around the outer margin. Wings below quite 

 similar to T. m. macrodice but with fuscous submarginai sagittate 

 markings obsolescent, the fuscous sometimes replaced with faint red 

 and w4th white stripes along veins broader, usuall}' covering slightly 

 more than the veins. 



Length of forewing, 22-29 mm. (average, 25.4 mm.). 



Type locality and additional type data: Described from two 

 males and one female from the Cauca Valley, Colombia; from one 

 female, Rfo Dagua, Department of Valle, Colombia; from one male 

 and one female, Macachi, Province of Pichinch^, Ecuador (3,000 m.); 

 and from one male, Loja, Provhice of Loja, Ecuador. There is 

 no lectotype. 



