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long, slender, with a swollen club ; $ f° re ^ e S with tibia long, thin, tarsus short, unsegmented. 



Secondary sexual characters. On the fore wing in the o* there is a large androconial dull 

 blackish brown patch situated between the upper edge of the cell, vein 5 and the costa, and 

 vein 1 is swollen and underlined by long brown hairs. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 270). Fore wing 8, 9, and 10 are stalked on 7 which arises from the 

 upper margin of the cell well before its upper angle, 11 free ; hind wing cell drawn out at the 

 lower angle. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 87) : uncus subtriangular, united to the tegumen by a slightly 

 sclerotized translucent area ; subunci long, curved, tapering towards the apex ; tegumen 

 trapezoidal ; vinculum broad and prolonged to form a long saccus ; lower fultura tightly 

 sheathing the base of the penis ; valves oblong and with rounded apices as in Epitola ; penis 

 long, slightly curved, tapering gradually to its apex, and devoid of the dorsal expansions of 

 Phytala and some species of Epitola ; uncus densely clothed with many long, fine hairs ; a 

 few short hairs on the distal portion of the valves. 



The caterpillar and chrysalis of A. honorius have been described and figured by 

 Eltringham (1922, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1921 : 474, pi. 12, figs 16 and 17). The 

 caterpillar bears on each segment four tubercles adorned with tufts of fine spines and 

 long, delicate, branched hairs. The chrysalis bears dorsal and lateral tubercles 

 furnished with recurved spines and chitinanths on its abdominal segments. 



List of Species of Aethiopana 



*Aethiopana honorius honorius (Fabricius), 1793. 

 teresa (Hewitson), 1869. 

 Aethiopana honorius ab. <$ coarctata Hulstaert, 1924, Revue zool. afr. 

 Aethiopana honorius divisa (Butler), 1901. 



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Fig. 87. Aethiopana honorius honorius (Fabricius), <J genitalia. 



