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as do almost all of the specimens we have from the Antilles, to the 

 form in which the prevalent color of the under side of the wings is 

 j)urple instead of brownish as is the case in most, but not all, speci- 

 mens from the North and South American mainland. 



Genus Telegonus Hiibner. 



48. Telegonus habana (Lucas). 



Eudamus habana (Lefebvre MS.) Lucas, in Sagra's Historia Natural de Cuba, 

 VII. 1856, p. 268. 



Of this species the collection contains fourteen specimens, several 

 taken at Nueva Gerona at the end of March, the others taken at the 

 same place from the end of July to the end of August. This fact 

 suggests that the species may be double-brooded. 



49. Telegonus geronae sp. nov. 



In outline and color nearly related to T. hahneli Staudinger, but 

 differing in having the collar, patagia, and thorax iridescent greenish 

 blue. In r. hahneli {vera) the collar and thorax are dark brown or 

 black, without a trace of blue or green. I have a set of four specimens 

 of T. hahneli purchased from Dr. Staudinger. The first pair is 

 labeled T. cassander Fabricius, under which name Staudinger first 

 marketed the species, and figured it in his Exotische Schmetterlinge, 

 Plate 98. The second pair is labeled Mthilla hahneli, under which 

 name he described the insect in the text of the Exotische Schmetter- 

 linge, Theil I, p. 291, having discovered that the insect figured on his 

 plate is not the species named cassander by Fabricius. I also have 

 a specimen before me derived from the Godman Collection and now 

 belonging to the Carnegie Museum, which bears Mr. Godman'r label 

 T. hahneli. These five specimens agree absolutely among themselves 

 in showing not the least trace of the blue-green squamation of the 

 collar and thorax, which is conspicuous in T. geronce. The hind wings 

 of T. geronce, especially the secondaries, are very dark on the under 

 side, and are lightly sprinkled with bronzy scales. There is scarcely 

 any trace of the dark transverse bands on the lighter ground of the 

 under side of the primaries which are well-marked features in T. 

 hahneli. 



T. geronce has undoubtedly been confounded in collections with T. 

 hahneli. We have a specimen from Costa Rica labeled " T. hahneli 

 Stgr." by Schaus, which clearly belongs to the new species. Stand- 



