. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 97 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. Megalopal
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 97 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 Butterflies 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. 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 i
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