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long, very robust, slightly swollen at the base with a cylindrical external portion ; vesica 

 enclosing two enormous lanceolate spines ; uncus lobes clothed with long, fine hairs, apex and 

 lower edge of valvae pilose. 



The caterpillar of T. timon has been described by Farquharson (1922, Trans, ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1922 : 361). It lives on the flowers of Loranthus incanus Schumach 

 (Loranthaceae), a parasite of Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf (Apocynaceae). 



List of Species of Iolaus {Tanuetheira) 



*Iolaus (Tanuetheira) timon timon (Fabricius), 1787. Fig. Butler, 1870. 

 *Iolaus (Tanuetheira) timon promethus H. H. Druce, 1891. Fig. genitalia, 



Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. 

 *Iolaus (Tanuetheira) timon congoensis Joicey & Talbot, 1921, Bull. Hill 



Mus. Witley 1 : 90, fig. Fig. genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. 

 Iolaus (Tanuetheira) timon orientius Hulstaert, 1924, Rev. zool. afr. 12 : 126. 



Fig. genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. 



IOLAUS (ARGIOLAUS) H. H. Druce 



Argiolaus 11. 11. Druce, 1891, Ann. Mag. not. Hist. (6) 8 : 143 ; I'inhey, 1949 : 103. Type- 

 species : Iolaus silas YVestwood, 1852, by original designation. 

 Iolaus Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 324 ; 1923 : 396 ; Murray, 1935 : 74 ; Swanepoel, 

 1953 : 173- 



Eyes smooth ; palpi long, parallel, second segment long, slightly ascending, laterally com- 

 pressed, clothed below with closely packed white scales, third segment short, porrect, with 

 blunt tip ; antennae a little longer than half the costa, rather robust, the club cylindrical, not 

 well defined ; tibia of o* fore leg shorter than femur, tarsus unsegmented and bearing delicate 

 spines below. 



Fig. 114. Iolaus (Tanuetheira) timon orientius Hulstaert, $ genitalia. 



