GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



List of Species of Ebepius 



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* Ebepius ochrascens ochrascens (Neave), 1904. 



* Ebepius ochrascens littoralis (Talbot), 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 : 74. 



Genus BATELUS1A H. H. Druce 



Batelusia H. H. Druce, 1910, I'roc. zool. Soc. Land. 1910 : 367 ; Aurivillius 1920 : 347. Type- 

 species : Batelusia zebra H. H. Druce, by original designation. 



Eyes large and naked ; palpi ascending, distinctly protruding beyond the frons, second 

 segment long, clothed below with adpressed scales, third segment short, slender, acuminate ; 

 antennae slender, white annulated ; thorax slender ; legs clothed with scales, (J fore tarsus 

 very short, unsegmented, hind tibia swollen. 



Wing shape : short and broad, fore wing with COSta and outer margin strongly convex ; 

 hind wing oval with blunt anal angle. 



Wing venation (Text-tig. 261). Fore wing with only 1 1 veins, vein 9 being absent. 



Druce in his original description compared the generus Batelusia with Powellana ; 

 he noted that in the fore wing veins 10 and 11 arc free and do not have a common 

 stem, but he did not mention the absence of vein 9, which however is missing in the 

 specimens that I have examined. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 77). l : ncus crescentic with a rounded distal edge ; subunci long, 

 strongly curved, swollen in the middle and then tapering to a sharp pointed apex ; tegumen 

 triangular, somewhat heavily sclerotized ; vinculum rather narrow, prolonged to form a taper- 

 ing saccus ; lower fultura fused to the base of the valves, closelv sheathing the internal portion 

 of the penis ; valves oblong, ending in a small rounded process ; penis robust, external portion 

 ending in an obliquely cut apex ; on the dorsal surface of the external portion there are two 

 large, rounded expansions, analogous to those found 111 Epitola posthutnus but much larger ; 

 uncus densely pilose, but valves bare except for the upper rt\^f and the distal process. 



The genitalia of zebra show close relationship to those of species of Epitola, Phytala, 

 etc. 



Fig. 77. Batelusia zebra Druce, o* genitalia. 



