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shaped and longer than the dorsal surface ; vesica unarmed ; uncus and apices of valves 

 finely pilose. (Note. In the mount from which this figure was drawn the penis has un- 

 fortunately undergone a partial rotation, so that the characters given in the description are not 

 clearly shown in the figure.) 



The genitalia of the Ethiopian species of Apharitis examined are very similar to 

 those of A. epargyros. 



The early stages of the Apharitis from tropical Africa are unknown. Those of A. 

 myrmecophila Dumont, from Tunisia, and of A. acamas chitralensis Riley, from 

 Chitral, have been observed. The caterpillar of A. myrmecophila is nocturnal in its 

 habits, and lives and pupates at the foot of tufts of Calligonum comosum L'Herit 

 (Polygonaceae), in the large tunnels made by ants. 



List of Ethiopian Species of Apharitis 



* Apharitis acamas bellatrix (Butler), 1886. Fig. Klug, 1834. 



Apharitis buchanani (Rothschild), 1921, Novit. zool. 28 : 155 ($). Talbot, 1942, 



Entomologist 75 : 249 (<$). 

 Apharitis gilletti Riley, 1925, Novit. zool. 32 : 85, fig. genitalia. 



* Apharitis nilus (Hewitson), 1865. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. Fig. genitalia, 



Riley, 1925, I.e. 

 subaureus (Smith), 1898. 

 Apharitis nilus f. kaduglii (Bethune Baker), 1916. 

 Apharitis nilus f. sabulosa (Hawker Smith), 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 3 : 



231. 

 Apharitis subaureus (Smith), see nilus. 



Fig. 140. Spindasis natalensis (Doubleday & Hewitson), o" genitalia. 



