GENERA OF AFRK ^N LYCAENIDAE 121 



Genus DAPIDODIGMA Karsch 



Dapidodigma Karsch, 189^, Ent. Nachr. 21 : 310 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 318 ; 1923 : 389. Type- 

 species : Papilio hymen Fabricius, 1775 (Papilio liger Cramer, 1782) by original designation. 



Eyes smooth ; vertex of head clothed with erect hairs ; palpi protruding well beyond the 

 frons, second segment very long, laterally compressed and clothed with short hairs, third 

 segment reduced, acuminate ; antennae, which are a little less than half the length of the 

 costa, with short segments gradually getting stouter and ending in a poorly differentiated 

 cylindrical club ; <J fore tarsus unsegmented and clothed with very long hairs almost up to its 

 extremity. 



Wing shape. Hind wing oval, produced at the anal angle, outer margin angled at the end of 

 vein 4, concave between veins 4 and 3, and with three delicate tails, all about equal in length, 

 at the ends of veins 3, 2 and ib, a small anal lobe. Male secondary sexual character, a large 

 very pale sulphur-yellow androconial patch covering the whole cell and the bases of the inter- 

 spaces 2 to 5. 



Wing venation (Text-hg. 28 



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109 



Figs 108-109. Dapidodigma hymen (Fabricius), J genitalia. 



