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Genus LAMPIDES Hiibner 



Lampides Hiibner, 1819, Yerz. bek. Schmett (5) 70 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 115 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 82. 



Type-species : Papilio boeticus Linnaeus, by selection of Grote (1873, Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. 



Sci. 3 : 179). 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 367 ; 1924 : 471. 

 Lycaena Fabricius (partim) ; Murray, 1945 : 161. 



Eyes clothed with long dense hair ; palpi long, ascending, second segment very long, laterally 

 compressed, clothed below with close-set long white scales and with a row of long stiff black 

 hairs, third segment short, horizontal, with blunt apex ; antennae slender, white-annulated, 

 a little longer than half the length of the costa, club elongate, clavate ; thorax robust, clothed 

 below with long white hair ; J fore leg, femur clothed with very long white hair, tibia shorter 

 than femur, tarsus unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Fore wing triangular, outer margin slightly convex, hind wing oval, with a 

 filiform tail at the end of vein 2. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 327). Fore wing with 11 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 189). Uncus composed of two subtriangular lobes with rounded 

 apices fused to the lateral angles of the tegumen, subunci short, flattened into lamellae, slightly 

 curved, apices blunt ; tegumen reduced to a narrow median band, vinculum wide above, very 

 narrow below, no saccus ; lower fultura Y-shaped, with long slender arms ; valves oblong with 

 broad bases and serrated apices which are slightly recurved ; penis short, massive, apical part 

 with two short blunt-ended processes which are probably homologous with the carina of the 

 penis of Syntarucus ; vesica armed with numerous cornuti ; uncus and distal halves of valves 

 pilose. 



The early stages of boeticus have often been described : — Murray (1935 : 162) ; 

 Jackson (1937, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 86 : 234) ; Dickson, C. G. E., (1944,/. ent. 

 Soc. sth. Afr. 7 : 96 ; 1945, 8 : 150 ; and 1947, 10 : 127) ; Pinhey, (1949 : 117). 

 As in Europe the caterpillar is polyphagous and lives in the pods of many wild and 

 cultivated species of Leguminosae. 



List of Species of Lampides 

 *Lampides boeticus (L.), 1767. 



Genus CYCLYRIUS Bulter 



Cyclyrius Butler, 1897, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 : 830. Type-species : Polyommatus webbianus 



Brulle (species restricted to the Canary Islands), by original designation. 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1924 : 471. 



Eyes densely clothed with fairly long hair ; palpi long, ascending, second segment long, 

 laterally compressed, clothed above and below with white scales and below also bearing long 

 black stiff hairs, third segment rather short, slender, acuminate and clothed with black scales ; 

 antennae slender, about three-fifths the length of the costa, club elongate clavate, well differ- 

 entiated ; thorax fairly robust, clothed below with white hair ; o" f° re leg. tibia shorter than 

 the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore w-ing subtriangular, apex angular, hind wing oval, no tail. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 328). Fore wing with n veins, 11 runs close to 12 but does not 

 touch it. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 190) (see also Stempffer, 1938, Mission Onto 4 : 201, fig. 23) : Uncus 

 composed of two small lobes narrowly fused to the tegumen on either side of its median con- 



