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the origin of vein 8, covering the origin of vein 7, and visible as a slight circular prominence on 

 the underside ; in the normal position of the wings it is to a great extent covered by the lobe of 

 the inner margin of the fore wing. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 281). Fore wing with 1 1 veins ; 10 and 1 1 free, from the upper edge 

 of the cell. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 98). Uncus composed of two flattened lobes separated by the shallow- 

 depression of the posterior margin of the tegumen ; subunci fairly robust, long, bent at about 

 mid-length ; tegumen very large, hood-shaped ; vinculum wide dorsally, narrow ventrally ; 

 no lower fultura ; valves oblong with pointed apices, the lower edge of each straight, the upper 

 edge convex with a small median process which is normally folded down over the inner suface, the 

 two processes being united by a delicate membrane which surrounds the penis as in the preceding 

 genera ; penis elongate, widely open in the doral surface of the inner portion ; the vesica bears 

 numerous cornuti giving it a shagreened appearace, and encloses an enormous cuneus which has 

 a hook-shaped, recurved apex ; uncus and apices of valves pilose. 



The male genitalia of all the species of Diopetes examined closely resemble those 

 of D. deritas. 



List of Species of Diopetes 



*Diopetes aucta Karsch, 1895. 



* Diopetes aurivilliusi Stempffer, 1954, Ball. Soc. cut. Fr. 59 : 106. 



* Diopetes bwamba Stempffer, 1962 : 1161, figs. 



*Diopetes catalla Karsch, 1895, (<$). Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1921 ; fig. $, 



Stempffer, 1954, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 59 : 105. 

 *Diopetes corruscans (Aurivillius), 1897. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1921. 



* Diopetes deritas (Hewitson), 1874. Fig. Hewitson, 1878. 



* Diopetes fumata Stempffer, 1954, Bull. Soc. cut. Fr. 59 : 107, fig. 

 *Diopetes kedassa H. H. Druce, 1910. 



Diopetes laticlavia Clench, 1965,7/ N.Y. ent. Soc. 73 : 180. 



Dioptes nirmo Clench, 1965, I.e. : 179. 



Diopetes pasteon H. H. Druce, 1910. 

 *Diopetes pseudoderitas Stempffer, 1964 : 1283, fig. 



Diopetes sadeska Clench, 1966, I.e. : 179. 

 *Diopetes violetta (Aurivillius), 1897. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1921. 



Genus VIRACHOLA Moore 



Virachola Moore, 1881, Lep. Ceylon 1 : 104. Type-species : Deudorix perse Hewitson, 1862, 



(Indo-Malayan species), by original designation. 

 Deudorix Hewitson (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 308 ; 1921 : 373 ; Murray 1935 : 60 ; Pinhey, 



1949 : 98 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 159. 



Eyes shortly and densely hairy ; palpi hardly protruding beyond the frons, second segment 

 shorter than in species of Deudorix, laterally compressed, clothed below with adpressed scales, 

 third segment very short with rounded apex ; antennae about two-thirds the length of the 

 costa, club gradually swollen, fusiform ; thorax very robust, hairy above and below ; <$ fore 

 leg with femur hairy, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore wing in the o\ apex very pointed, outer margin straight, even slightly 

 concave between the ends of veins 3 and 1, inner margin lobed in its basal half ; in the $ the 

 apex is less pointed and the outer margin more convex, the inner margin not lobed. Male 



