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Palpi densely scaled, third joint much reduced, subconic, barely one-fourth the length of 

 second joint ; antennae with 32 segments, the club large and flattened. 



Wing venation (see van Son, 1959. Soros lava ent. 16 : tig. 3)- v ein n of fore wing arises 

 much nearer to the origin of vein 10 than to the base of the wing. Hind wing cell much shorter 

 than in Durbaniella and with a small precostal vein. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 20). Uncus crescent-shaped with rounded apex and straight sides, 

 fused to the subtriangular tegumen. Subunci very long, slender, curved near their base ; 

 shown spread out in the illustration, in their normal position they lie folded under the tegumen. 

 Vinculum narrow, prolonged in a triangular saccus. Valves oblong, the apex rounded, not 

 divided. Penis like that of Durbania and Durbaniella. Incus and distal part of the valves 

 covered with line hair. 



The simple symmetrical genitalia of Durbania, Durbaniella and Durbaniopsis show- 

 common characters, although subunci are lacking in Durbania. Tiny are very far 

 removed from those of Telipna, Pentila and Ornipholi&okos. In spite of the presence 

 of a precostal vein on the hind wings in both these groups of genera, I consider they 

 are not truly related. 



List of Species of Durbaniopsis 

 *Durbaniopsis saga (Trimen), 1883. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1914. 



Genus M1MACRAEA Butler 



Mimacraea Butler, 1872, Lep.exot. : 104 ; Aurivillius, 1898 265 [918 J« ; Knhey, 1949 : 97 



Type-species : Mimacraea darwinii Butler, 1872, by original designation. 



/ yes smooth ; palpi moderately long, clothed below with black scales, the third segment 



ing a few white scales at the apex ; antennae about hall as long as the costa, club elongated 



and progressively swollen ; thorax rather slender ; abdomen long, reaching slightly beyond the 



anal angle ; legs robust, black, white-annulated, fore tarsi of j ansegmented and finely spinose 



below . 



Fig. 21. Mimacraea darwinii Butler, $ genitalia. 



