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Spelling of the name Terias Swainson, 1821. While this possibility cannot be entirely ruled 

 out, it seems incredible that anyone could suppose that the large heavily constructed 

 Hesperiid here in question was congeneric with the very much smaller delicately constructed 

 Pierids to which the name Terias Swainson is applicable. For this reason and because of the 

 lack of any definite evidence in support of the theory advanced by Barnes & McDunnough, 

 the name Teria is here treated as being a new name introduced by Blasquez, the genus so 

 named being monotypical with the Hesperiid Teria agavis, figured by Blasquez, as its type- 

 species. On this basis, which has been generally adopted by writers since the time of Barnes 

 & McDunnough, the name Teria Blasquez is a junior subjective synonym of Aegiale Felder, 

 i860, the name of a genus having as its type-species a nominal species (Aegiale kollari Felder 

 (C.) & Felder (R.), i860) which, like Teria agavis Blasquet is currently treated subjectively on 

 taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the nominal species 

 Castnia hesperiaris Walker, 1856. 



The serial in which the paper by Blasquez was published is very scarce, and most authors 

 who have discussed the name Teria appear to have relied upon information obtained at 

 second hand. In this connection it may be useful — in order to avoid subsequent doubts and 

 confusion — to note, for examble, that Mabille in 1904 [in YVytsman's Gen. Ins. 17 (D) : 184) 

 misspelled the name of the author as " Blasquirt " and misattributed Blasquez's paper to 

 " Le Naturaliste ". Even Evans (1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4 : 465, 466) attributed 

 different dates to the names composing the binomen Teria agavis Blasquez, citing " 1870 " 

 correctly as the date of the generic name Teria, but, like Kirby in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. 

 Lep. : 608), misdating the specific name agaris as having been published in " 1865 ". 



TERIAS Swainson, [1821], Zool. Illustr. (1) 1 : pi. 22. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio hecabe Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 470. 



TERINOS Boisduval, [1836], (Roret's Suite a Buffon), Hist. not. Ins., Spec. gen. Lepid. 

 1 : pi. 9 [ =pl. 5B]. Type-species by monotypy : Terinos Clarissa Boisduval, [1836], ibid., 

 Spec. gen. Lepid. 1 : pi. 9 [=pl. 5B], fig. 4. 



TERIOCOLIAS Rober, [1909], in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 5 : 89. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Terias atinas Hewitson, 1874, Descr. new Spec. Butts Buckley Bolivia : 4. 



TERIOMIMA Kirby, 1887, Ann. Mag. nut. Hist. (5) 19 : 364. Type-species by original 

 designation : Teriomima subpunctata Kirby, 1887, ibid. (5) 19 : 364. 



TERNERINA Stallings & Turner, 1959, Lepid. News 12 (3/4) : 94 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Turnerina Freeman, 1959). 



TERPSICHROIS Hiibner, 1821, Index exot. Lep. : [5] (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of 

 Trepsiclirois Hiibner, 1816). 



TETRACHARIS Grote, 1898, Proc. amer. pliil. Soc. 37 : 37. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Anthocharis cethura Felder (C.) Sc Felder (R.), [1865], Reise Fregatte " Novara " , Lep. 

 Rhop. (2) : 182, pi. 25, figs 1, 2 $. 



TETRAGONUS Geyer, [1832], in Hiibner, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 4 : 17. Type- 

 species by monotypy : Tetragonus catamitus Geyer, [1832], in Hiibner, ibid. 4 : 17, 

 pi. [113], figs 653, 654. 



This was treated by Geyer as a genus of butterflies, but this was incorrect. The type- 

 (and sole) species is a moth. In the Wytsman facsimile edition of the Zutrdge (1912) Kirby 

 placed this genus ( : 36) in the family Callidulidae. 



TETRAPHLEBIA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise Fregatte " Novara ", Lep. Rhop. 

 (3) : 487. Type-species by monotypy : Tetraphlebia germainii Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 

 [1867], ibid., Lep. Rhop. (3) : 488. 



TETRARHANIS Karsch, 1893, Berl. ent. Z. 38 (1/2) : 217. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Liptena ilma Hewitson, [1873], III. exot. Butts 5 : [86], pi. [45], fig. 13. 



