GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



*Myrina sharpei fontainei Stempffer, 1961 : 54, fig. 

 *Myrina subornata subornata Lathy, 1903. 

 Myrina subornata nuba Talbot, 1935 Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 



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Genus PSEUDALETIS H. H. Druce 



Pseudaletis H. H. Druce, 1888, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 24 : 259 ; Aurivillms, 1898 : 311 ; 



1922 : 378. Tvpe-species : Pseudaletis agrippina H. H. Druce, by original designation. 



/ yes naked ; palpi extremely small, hardly visible, clothed with scales ; antennae rather 

 short, robust, swelling gradually to a poorly differentiated club ; thorax robust ; abdomen 

 long, in the ? apically swollen and bearing a dense tuft of hairs, which are probably of use to 

 cover the eggs when laid ; o f° re tarsus unsegmentrd. 



Wing shape. Fore wing proportionally more developed than the hind wing ; hind wing oval, 

 produced at the anal angle, a delicate tail at the end of each of the veins 1 and il>. 



Wing-venation (Text-fig. 284). The venation is not entirely uniform throughout the genus. 

 In clymenus veins 3 and 4 of the hind wing are briefly stalked and 7 arises from the upper angle 

 of the cell. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 102). Uncus composed of four digitate processes with rounded 

 apices ; no subunci ; tegumen subrectangular, in its normal position hood-shaped, so that the 

 two side processes of the uncus are below the middle processes when the genitalia in situ are 

 looked at from the side ; vinculum wide, prolonged to form a rounded saccus ; lower fultura 

 composed of two subtriangular pieces fused to the middle of the valves ; valves oblong with 

 blunt apices, the upper processes being connected in the middle of the inner surface by a mem- 

 brane which lies above the penis ; penis very swollen, bulbous at the base, the external part 

 subcylindrical and bearing on its dorsal surface an irregular prominence ; vesica with many 

 fine cornuti; genitalia almost bare, just a few hairs on the uncus and the apices of the valves. 



Owing to the scarcity of specimens of Pseudaletis in most European collections, I 

 have had no opportunity of examining more than the six species indicated below. 

 In all these species the male genitalia are the same as in agrippina. The processes 

 forming the uncus vary a little in size and are sometimes tapered, as in clymenus, but 



Fig 102. Pseudaletis agrippina Druce, o* genitalia. 



