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H. STEMPFFER 



shorter than femur, tarsus unsegmented and finely spinose below ; mid and hind legs with 

 tibiae shorter than femora. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with costa arched at the base, then straight, apex pointed, outer 

 margin slightly convex ; hind wing oval, apex rounded, outer margin slightly scalloped at the 

 ends of veins 2 and 3, a small rounded projection at the end of vein ib. Wing shape is not 

 uniform in the genus Aloeides. In wallengreni the anal angle is much more produced. On the 

 other hand, in barklyi the hind margin of the hind wings is almost evenly rounded. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 310) 

 stalk. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 155) 

 the long base of the trapezoid ; 

 their apices ; the proximal ed 



Veins 6 and 7 of the fore wings arise from a short common 



Uncus trapezoidal, distal margin feebly convex and forming 



subunci robust, bent near the base and tapering gradually to 



;e of the tegumen forms a large rounded projection directed 



towards the eighth abdominal segment, in situ uncus and tegumen together are hood-shaped 



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..... . :-••• ••■sanafr" ■" 



Fig. 155. Aloeides pierus (Cramer), $ genitalia. 



Fig. 156. Aloeides thyra thyra (Linnaeus), o* genitalia. 



