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H. STEMPFFER 



In his description of the genus, Karsch does not designate a type-species, but gives 

 as included species elorea Staudinger (with a reference to Staudinger's figure in Exot. 

 Schmett., pi. 94) and ornata Mabille. In the Ent. Nachr., 21 : 297, 1895, the same 

 author erects for ornata the genus Athysanota and under Oboronia he writes " zu 

 Oboronia gehoren punctata Dewitz = elorea Staudinger nee Fabricius, gussfeldti 

 Dewitz, etc. " Hemming (i960, Annot. Lep. 1 : 35) pointed out that there was no 

 such nominal species as Lycaena elorea Staudinger, gave the name Oboronia staudin- 

 geri to the species depicted by Staudinger and then selected Oboronia staudingeri as 

 type-species of the genus Oboronia. The oldest name for this species is, however, 

 Plebeius punctatus Dewitz, 1879. 



Eyes smooth ; palpi long, ascending, second segment long, laterally compressed clothed 

 below with long white scales and stiff hair, third segment short, acuminate ; antennae slender, 

 about half the length of the costa, club very elongate and flattened ; thorax clothed below 

 with white hair ; o" Iore leg. femur slightly flattened, tibia much shorter than femur, tarsus 

 unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, costa and outer margin strongly convex, hind wing 

 oval, a short linear tail at the end of vein 2. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 337). Fore wing with 11 veins ; 10 and 11 free from the upper 

 edge of the cell. Aurivillius (1898 : 380) points out that the differences in the venation between 

 Thermoniphas and Oboronia are slight and inconstant ; this is true, for in certain specimens of 

 punctatus vein 11 bends towards 12 and is sometimes confluent with it. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 210). Uncus composed of two small subtriangular lobes with 

 rounded apices fused to the lateral angles of the tegumen ; subunci long, bent about two-fifths 

 from base, tapering evenly from base to apex which ends as a shallow hook ; tegumen with a 

 rounded median hollow r on posterior margin ; vinculum fairly wide ; lower fultura with two 

 short divergent arms to which is fused an anellus that sheathes the penis ; valves very elongate, 

 widened at their base, then digitate, the lower process slightly serrated at its apex, penis elon- 

 gate, internal portion cylindrical, external portion slightly dilated and divided into two pro- 

 cesses ; vesica with numerous cornuti ; uncus and apices of valves pilose. 



Fig. 210. Oboronia punctatus punctatus (Dewitz), o* genitalia. 



