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AFRICAN MIMETIC BUTTERFLIES 



a. Discoidal cell of hind-wing closed. 



b. Fore-wing nervures frequently swollen at base. 



c. Palpi pressed together, not slender, and bearing long stiff hairs in front. 

 e. Larvae thickest in the middle, posterior end bifid. 



Sub-family 2. Satyrinae. 



a. Discoidal cell closed. 



h. Fore- wing submedian nervure not forked at base. 



c. Palpi cylindrical. 



e. Larvae armed with branched spines. 



Sub-family 3. Acraeinae. 



a. Discoidal cell closed. 



b. Median nervure in fore-wing with short spur at the base. 



c. Palpi compressed, with scales at the sides and covered with hairs in front. 



d. Female fore-foot with a four- jointed tarsus. 



e. Larvae covered with branched spines. 



Sub-family 4. Heliconinae. 



a. Hind-wing cell closed. Usually a small prediscoidal cell. 

 e. Larvae not very spiny. Tail bifid. 



Sub-family 5. Brassolinae. 



a. Hind- wing cell open. 



e. Larvae smooth or spiny. Tail bifid. 



Sub-family 6. Morphinae. 



a. Fore- and hind- wing discoidal cells open or incompletely closed. 



d. Male front tarsus unjointed and without spines. Female front tarsus four- or 

 five-jointed. 



e. Larvae spined or smooth. 



Sub-family 7. Nymphalinae. 



B. Tarsi of first pair of legs imperfect in male, perfect in female. 



Family II. ERYCINIDAE. 



c. Palpi short and small. 



Sub-family i. Erycininae. 



c. Palpi unusually long. 



Sub-family 2. Libythaeinae. 



C. Tarsi of front pair of legs perfect in female, but in male single-jointed, wanting ' 



one or both claws,* and spined beneath. 



Family III. LYCAENIDAE. 



D. Tarsi of front pair of legs perfect in both sexes. Claws bifid, and provided with 

 paronychia and pulvillus. 



Family IV. FIERI DAE. 



1 Rarely, as in the African genus Arrugia, the males have jointed fore-tarsi armed with two claws. 



