i 4 4 



H. STEMPFFER 



Group G : — Tegumen with a weak median notch, subunci robust, curved, valves 

 strongly asymmetrical, penis robust : — 



/. (E.) maesa (Text -fig. 132), creta. 



The early stages of some of the species of Epamera have been described in the 

 following papers : — 



E. bansana, E. sidus, E. tajoraca, Jackson (1937, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 86 : 

 214-6). 



E. iasis, E. farquharsoni, E. laon, E. maesa, E. aethria (= mirabilis) Farquharson 

 and Eltringham, (1922, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1921 : 362-3, 481-2). 



E. mimosae, E. aemuhis Murray (1935 : 78, 80). 



All the known caterpillars of Epamera live on leaves or flowers of species of 

 Loranthus which are parasitic on various trees. 



List of Species of Iolaus (Epamera) 



Iolaus (Epamera) adamsi Lathy, see laon. 

 *Iolaus (Epamera) aemulus Trimen, 1895. Fig. genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 



J 959- 

 Iolaus (Epamera) aemulus $-f. apatosa Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 

 71 : 117, fig. 

 * Iolaus (Epamera) aethria Karsch, 1893 (<£). Fig. H. H. Druce, 1907 (as 

 mirabilis). Fig. genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1959. 

 Iolaus (Epamera) aethria Audeoud, 1936, see bellina. 

 *Iolaus (Epamera) agues Aurivillius, 1897 ($). Fig. and fig. genitalia, Stempffer 

 & Bennett, 1959 ; fig. $, Stempffer, 1961 : 98. 

 Iolaus (Epamera) alberici Dufrane, 1945, see creta. 



Fig. 132. Iolaus [Epamera) maesa (Hewitson), <$ genitalia. 



