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Murgaria Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, 37. Type 

 Telegonus alhocUiatus Mabille. 



Palpi poirect; second joint closely and roughly sealed; third 

 small, almost concealed in vestiture of second. Antennae about 

 one-half as long as primaries; club slender, tapering gradually 

 into the reflexed tip, which is not quite as long as the rest of the 

 club. Primaries moderately broad ; costa slightly rounded, with 

 or without the fold in the male ; outer margin slightly sinuate in 

 the male, more evenly rounded in the female ; cell slightly over 

 two-thirds as long as wing; spur vein very faintly indicated, 

 near vein 4 ; 5 slightly nearer to 4. Secondaries angled at lb in 

 the male, more rounded in the female. In epigona this char- 

 acter is very variable, some specimens having the angle acute 

 and others obtuse. Vein 5 is not present, as stated by Watson 

 (P. Z. S. 1893, 34) but is indicated by a slight fold. 



Although it seems very radical to combine these genera, a 

 careful consideration of their structures has failed to disclose any 

 basis for their separation. Epigona, formerly placed in PJwe- 

 dimis, is ob\"iously congeneric with alhocdliatiis, and hence un- 

 der the old arrangement would fall into Murgaria, while both 

 dffer from li/cidas only in the absence of the costal fold in the 

 males. Some specimens of the white fringed species have the 

 anal angles of the secondaries much more acute than in lycidns, 

 and therefore look much different, but as I have stated, this 

 character is verj' variable. The male genitalia are similar and 

 of a peculiar form. 



Key to the species 



1. Primaries with yellow spots lycidas 



Primaries with or without white spots 2 



2. Primaries with well defined whitish hyaline spots epigon-a 



Primaries with an obscure dark band, rarely with a few white spots 

 albociliutus 



1. ACHALARUS LYCIDAS 



Papilio lycidas Abbot and Smith, Lep. Ins. Ga. i, 39, pi. 20, 1797. 

 Proteides lycmdes Geyer, Zutr. ex. Schmett. iv, 10, ff. 621, 622, 1832. 

 Skinner, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxvii, 188, 1911. 



New York and Pennsylvania, August, and south to the gulf, where it 

 is taken in May and June. 



