GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



List of Species of Powellana 



*Powellana cottoni Bethune Baker, 1908. 



weberi (Holland), 1913 ; virginea Birket Smith, i960. 

 Powellana virginea Birket Smith, see cottoni. 

 Powellana weberi (Holland), see cottoni. 



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Genus MEG ALO PALP US Rober 



Megalopalpus Rober, 1886, Dt. ent. Z. Iris 1:51; Aurivillius, 1898 : 300 ; 1923 : 361. Type- 

 species : Megalopalpus simplex Rober, by original designation. 



M. simplex was described as coming from Borneo, very probably the result of an 

 error in labelling, for, as far as I know, it has never been found again in the Oriental 

 Region, whilst it is common in Africa from the Gold Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, 

 Cameroon, Gaboon and Congo to Uganda. 



Head small ; eyes smooth ; palpi very long, even longer than in the Indo-Malayan genera 

 Miletus and Allotinus, ascending, laterally compressed, clothed with short, adpressed hairs, 

 third segment slightly longer than the second ; antennae slender, less than half as long as the 

 costa, club fusiform, very slightly swollen ; thorax slender ; abdomen long, protruding far 

 beyond the anal angle ; $ fore leg with tibia slightly shorter than the femur, tarsus very long, 

 unsegmented, pubescent and with a single claw ; mid and hind legs with tibiae slightly shorter 

 than femora, first tarsal segment very long ; no terminal claws 



In the shape of the hind wings the sexes show a marked difference. The outer margin in the 

 $ has a slight angle at the end of vein 5, which in the $ is much more prominent. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 273) : fore wing with 1 1 veins, vein 9 being absent ; hind wing 

 with a short precostal vein which arises from vein 8 near its base. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 90) : uncus composed of two enormous triangular lobes with sharp 

 pointed apices, fused at their base to the tegumen and separated by a very deep groove ; subunci 

 fairly robust, regularly curved and tapering to the apex ; tegumen well developed with the 



Fig. 89. Powellana cottoni Bethune Baker, <J genitalia. 



