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vinculum rather narrow, with a rounded saccus ; lower fultura a triangular plate with a shallow 

 notch at the apex ; valves oblong with rounded apices, their upper processes folded over the 

 inner surface, and connected by a membrane which passes over the penis ; penis robust, widely 

 open dorsally in its internal portion, swollen in the middle and with obliquely truncate apex ; 

 vesica enclosing small cornuti and delicate spines ; distal margins of uncus and valves sparsely 

 pilose. 



As in the type-species, A. pierus, the distal margin of the uncus is straight or 

 feebly convex in aranda, damarensis, molomo, orthrus and thyra (Text-fig. 156). In 

 barklyi it is very convex. On the other hand it is slightly concave in taikosama and 

 almeida. In wallengreni (Text-fig. 157) the uncus is distinctly different in form, 

 being subrectangular with a shallow depression on the distal margin, lateral angles 

 rounded and sides straight, the subunci angled further from the base, equally thick 

 throughout, instead of tapered and ending in a blunt tip. A. malagrida approaches 

 wallengreni in the form of its uncus. 



The larva of A. pierus has been described by Dickson (1945, /. ent. Soc. sth. A jr. 

 8 : 161). It lives on a species of Aspalathus (Leguminosae). 



List of Species of Aloeides 



Aloeides aglaspis (Trimen), see malagrida. 



* Aloeides almeida (Felder), 1862. Fig. Felder, 1865, Reise Novara. 



* Aloeides aranda aranda (Wallengren), 1857. Fig- Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. 



mars (Trimen), 1862 ; pierus var. A. Trimen, 1866. 

 Aloeides aranda f. rougemonti (Oberthur), 1910. 

 Aloeides aranda zilka Smith, 1900. 



* Aloeides barklyi (Trimen), 1874. 



* Aloeides conradsi (Aurivillius), 1907. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz-, 1924. 



Fig. 157. Aloeides wallengreni (Trimen), <J genitalia. 



