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&?. Hindwing with three short tails in female ; a large anal lobe ; hindwing elongat- 
ed and somewhat produced posteriorly. Both sexes, forewing with three 
subcostal nervules ? 
CXXIX.—Tuanvuka. 
6°. Hindwing tailless, or with one tail from first median nervule, which is either 
filamentous, or short and stout, or spatulate. Hindwing not so short or 
evenly rounded as in the Polyommatus group. Both sexes, forewing with 
three subcostal nervules. 
a. Hindwing, apex rounded, or but slightly produced; tail short and 
conical, or filamentous, or entirely absent. 
CXXX.—ARHOPALA, 
CX XXI.—AcEsiIna. 
8°, Hindwing, apex strongly produced and hooked ; tail spatulate- 
CXXXII.—MauarHara. 
j*. Hindwing sometimes angulate, sometimes rounded and entire; no tail; all 
species distinguished from all other genera (except Drina) by a shining 
silvery-white underside ; also (except both sexes of Amblyfodia and the 
males only of Jyaota and Zesius) by having the costal nervure of forewing 
ending on outer margin below apex of wing. Both sexes, forewiag with 
three subcostal nervules. 
CXXXIii.—Coretis. 
Thecla group. 
2% Hindwing somewhat elongated, outer margin efter somewhat dentate, usually 
furnished with a short filamentous tail from apex of first median nervule. 
a®, Male with elongated glandular patch of scales at upper end of discoidal 
cell. Both sexes, forewing with two subcostal nervules; middle 
disco-cellular in male arising far beyond, in female at base of, 
upper discoidal nervule. 
CXXXIV.—THECLA. 
63. Males with no secondary sexual characters. Both sexes, ferewing with 
three subcostal nervules. 
a‘. Forewing, upper discoidal nervule given off from subcostal 
nervure long after apex of discoidal cell. 
a®. Hindwing, second median nervule given off before 
apex of discoidal cell. 
CXXXV.—ZEpPHYRUS. 
6°. Hindwing, second median nervule given off at apex 
of discoidal cell. 
CXXXVI.—Euvaspa. 
&*. Forewing, upper discoidal nervule given off from subcostal 
nervure before or at apex of discoidal cell. 
a®, Female furnished with a tuft of closely-set hairs at the 
end of the abdomen. 
CXXXVII.—CH#ToprocTa. 
65. Female not furnished with a tuft of closely-set hairs 
at the end of the abdomen. 
a®. Forewing, underside, basal half with numer- 
ous black spots; hindwing with a fila- 
mentous tail at end of first median nervule, 
tail sometimes reduced to a tooth. 
CXXXVIII.—CurysopHanus, 
6°. Forewing, underside, basal half unmarked ; 
hindwing sometimes with an elongated 
tail, sometimes with only a tooth at end 
of first median nervule. 
CXXXIX.—ILErpa. 
12, Hindwing in male with two short filamentous tails under half an inch in length. 
a®, Female with three tails. Male, forewing with four subcostal nervules, 
female with three. 
CXL.— ZeEsius.* 
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* Except the genera A mblyfodia, Iraota and Zesius, which have four subcostal nervules in the forewing in 
the male, and three in the female; and Zarona aud Dacalana, which have four subcostal nervules in both sexes, 
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