198 H. STEMPFFER 



Genus TRICLEMA Karsch 



Triclema Karsch, 1893, Berl. ent. Z. 38 : 227 ; Bethune Baker, 1910 : 70 Type-species : 



Lycaenesthes lucretilis Hewitson, by original designation. 

 Lycaenesthes Moore, 1866 (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 345, 1924 : 450. 



Eyes finely pilose ; palpi long, second segment laterally compressed, clothed below with long 

 stiff black and white bristles, third segment fairly long, slender, acuminate ; antennae slender, 

 three-fifths the length of the costa, club fusiform ; 5* fore leg, femur clothed with long white 

 hair, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Like that of Anthene, the hind wing with a small pencil of hair at the ends of 

 veins ib, 2 and 3. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 321). Fore wing with 10 veins ; 8 and 9 absent ; 10 free from the 

 upper edge of the cell ; 11 broadly confluent with 12. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 1 70) . Uncus composed of two small subtriangular lobes with rounded 

 apices and fused to the lateral angles of the tegumen ; subunci long with massive bases, bent 

 in an obtuse angle near the base and with a terminal claw ; tegumen subrectangular with a 

 shallow rounded depression in the posterior margin ; vinculum fairly wide, with a long tapering 

 saccus ; lower fultura two slender curved arms ; valves elongate, the folded over upper edge 

 forming a sharp point at about three-quarters of the total length and hooked at the apex, the 

 lower edge also forming a sharp point in the distal half ; penis elongate, slightly bent, sw r ollen 

 in its internal portion, then tapering in the external part and dilated just before the pointed 

 apex ; uncus and distal part of valves clothed with long fine hair. 



The male genitalia of nigeriae, measseni, hades, phoenicis, kamilila ituriensis, 

 lutzi and rufoplagata are very like those of lucretilus, the posterior margin of the 

 tegumen being scarcely at all excavate on the median line, and the margins of both 

 processes of the valves being provided with a robust tooth. In T. lamias the 

 posterior margin of the tegumen is more deeply concave, and the valves are more 

 produced with a recurved apex. The genitalia of obscura, inconspicua and lacidas 

 are much the same, but the terminal margin of the tegumen is much more deeply 

 concave, the apex of the valves more deeply incised and the two processes each end 

 in a sharp stout tooth. I figure the genitalia of obscura (Text-fig. 171). 



I have not been able to examine Triclema fasciatus, of which Aurivillius writes in 

 his original description " Alis subtus albidis signaturis nigris fere ut in L. staudingeri 

 formatis et ordinatis " and, again, " Die Art steht dem L. staudingeri ohne zweifel 



Fig. 170. Triclema lucretilis lucretilis (Hewitson), 5" genitalia. 



