GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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List of Species of Megalopalpus 



Megalopalpus angulosus Griinberg, 1910. 



Megalopalpus bicoloria (Capronnier), see simplex. 



Megalopalpus gigas Bethune Baker, 1914, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1914, explanation 

 of pi. 58, see simplex. 

 *Megalopalpus metaleucus Karsch, 1893. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1923. 



Megalopalpus sitnilis (Kirby), see simplex. 

 *Megalopalpus simplex Rober, 1886. 



bicoloria (Capronnier), 1889 ; similis Kirby, 1890 ; gigas Bethune Baker, 1914. 

 *Megalopalpus zymna (Westwood), 1851. 



Megalopalpus zymna f. pallida Aurivillius, 1923. 



Genus LACHNOCNEMA Trimen 



Lachnocnema Trimen, 1887, 5'. African Butter flies 2 : 233 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 301 ; 1923 : 362 ; 

 Murray, 1935 : 55 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 97 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 191. Type-species : Papilio 

 bibulus Fabricius, 1793, selected by Hemming, i960, Annot. I.ep. 1 : 11. 



Head small, pilose ; eyes densely hairy ; palpi long, ascending, first and second segments 

 clothed below with stiff hair, third segment long, acuminate ; antennae short, thick, with a 

 poorly differentiated, cylindrical, blunt-tipped club ; thorax short, very hairy ; legs short, 

 robust, femora and tibiae clothed with scales and dense long, woolly hair which conceals the 

 basal portion of the tarsi ; tarsi short, robust, scaly, with a few short bristles, spinose below ; 

 cj fore tarsus segmented like the other tarsi, but rather smaller and very hairy. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 274). 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 91) : uncus subrectangular, the lateral angles rounded, and slightly 

 folded back ; subunci very long, bent at right-angles at one-third of their length, tapering 

 gradually to an apex which bears a distinct hook ; tegumen reduced to a narrow band ; vin- 

 culum rather narrow, prolonged to form a spatulate saccus ; inferior fultura well developed, 

 like a furca, arising from the base of the valves ; valves elongate with broadly rounded apices ; 

 to the upper process is articulated distally a long, finger-like process bent in the shape of an 

 open V ; the lower margin of the valves bears, about midway, a broad triangular expansion 

 with rounded apex, and, midway beyond this a weak blunt tooth ; penis elongate, fairly robust, 

 slightly curved, tapering gradually to an obtuse apex ; vesica bears fine cornuti which give it a 

 shagreened appearance ; uncus almost bare, distal portion of valves densely and finely pilose. 



Fig. 91. Lachnocnema bibulus (Fabricius), o* genitalia. 



