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The Milkweed Butterflies (CC With six well-developed)

CC. With six well-developed legs, although in some species the fore legs of the male are a little shorter, and the tarsi of these lack one or both claws; radius of the fore wings (except in some orange-tips, p. 81) only three- or four-branched (Fig. 27).

D. The first branch of media (vein M₁) of the fore wings arising at or near the apex of cell R + M (Fig. 39), except in the wanderer (p. 237).

E. Hind wings with a costa and a humeral vein (Fig. 39). (Riodinida), p. 213.