io H. STEMPFFER 



set out in the Opinion quoted above and in the application submitted to the Com- 

 mission by Francis Hemming and myself. The strict application of the Rules would 

 have resulted in great confusion in the generic names of some 150 species of Lycaen- 

 idae, would have upset usages which had been customary since 1898, and served 

 no useful purpose. 



Frons and palpi bearing closely adpressed hair-scales. Eyes smooth, palpi short, third seg- 

 ment much reduced, button-shaped. Thorax laterally compressed, abdomen rather long. 

 Legs black, white-ringed ; <J fore tarsi unsegmented, without terminal claws. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 230). A short precostal vein is present at the base of the hind wings. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 4). It is difficult to give a clear description of the 5* genitalia of T. 

 acraea ; only by carrying out an actual dissection can a satisfactory idea be obtained. Bethune 

 Baker's description (1914 : 319, pi. 59, fig. 12) is very brief and his photograph showing the 

 organs in profile, in situ, is rather confusing. I have chosen to figure the genitalia with the 

 different parts separated, in ventral aspect, and spread out as much as possible. 



Uncus bilobed, without clearly articulated subunci, but with lateral expansions fused to the 

 very large tegumen. Vinculum broad ; on the tergite-sternite suture there are two supple- 

 mentary processes of irregular outline enclosing the penis and resembling a secondary pair of 

 reduced valves ; the true valves broadly fused basally to the vinculum, the upper process ending 

 in a pair of rounded lobes, the much shorter lower process having a similar rounded end. Penis 

 uniformly tapering, ending in a truncated cone. Uncus and distal half of valves hairy. 



The male genitalia of all the species of Telipna examined are very uniform, except 

 for T. carnuta which really should be excluded from the genus. The venation, too, 

 of this species is slightly different ; on the fore wing vein 7 arises slightly before 

 the upper angle of the cell ; on the hind wing vein 7 is stalked with vein 6, separating 

 from it very near its origin. 



Fig. 4. Telipna acraea semirufa Smith & Kirby, o* genitalia. 



