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H. STEMPFFER 



Genus MI MERES I A Stempffer 



Mimeresia Stempffer, 1961 Annls Mus. R. A jr. cent. Ser. 4to 94 : 24. Type-species : Liptena 



libentina Hewitson, 1886, by original designation. 

 Pseuderesia Butler (pro parte) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 267 ; 1918 : 318. 



Eyes large and smooth ; palpi rather long, ascending, extending broadly beyond the frons, 

 the second joint densely scaly, the third short and pointed ; antennae long and delicate, white- 

 banded, the club progressively expanding ; thorax moderately stout, abdomen long and reach- 

 ing beyond the anal angle ; in the $ the tibiae of the fore leg often swollen (Text-fig. 23, libentina) 

 and clothed in closely adpressed scales, tarsi not jointed ; in the $ the tibiae not swollen. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 238). On all four wings the cell is longer than in Mimacraea and 

 reaches about midway. On the hind wing vein 5 arises nearer to 6 + 7 than to 4. 



Male genitalia. Very similar to those of Mimacraea, except that the apex of the valves is 

 falcate and not crescentic. 



The genitalia of all the species of Mimeresia are very like those of libentina (Text- 

 fig. 22) and far removed from Pseuderesia. Such close similarity cannot be attri- 

 buted to chance. One cannot doubt the ancestral affinity of Mimacraea and 

 Mimeresia, the two genera only being separable in form, pattern and slight differences 

 in wing venation. The resemblance in facies between Mimeresia and Pseuderesia is 

 at present not satisfactorily explained. 



List of Species of Mimeresia 



Mimeresia alberici (Dufrane), see (<$) neavei and ($) moreelsi purpurea. 

 Mimeresia ashira (Holland), see debar a. 



Figs 22-23. Mimeresia libentina (Hewitson), <$ genitalia and 0* anterior leg. 



