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H. STEMPFFER 



Genus AZANUS Moore 



Azanus Moore, 1881, Lep. Ceylon 1 : 79 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 113 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 58. Type- 

 species : Papilio ubaldus Cramer, by original designation. 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 364 ; 1925 : 468. 

 Lycaena Fabricius (partim) ; Murray, 1935 : 158. 



Eyes densely pilose ; palpi long, ascending, second segment long, laterally compressed, 

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

 about two-thirds the length of the costa, club oval, flattened well differentiated ; thorax 

 clothed below with long white silky hair ; $ fore leg, femur clothed with long white hair, tibia 

 slightly shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, apex angular, outer margin convex from the apex 

 to the end of vein 4, then straight ; inner margin straight, distinctly shorter than the costa ; 

 hind wing oval, no tail. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 341). Fore wing with 11 veins ; 11 broadly anastomosed with 12. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 216). Uncus shaped like a breast-plate, its posterior margin deeply 

 notched, each angle bearing a small, weakly sclerotized lobe ; subunci short, massive, curved ; 

 tegumen reduced to a narrow band ; vinculum narrow ; lower fultura crescentic ; valves 

 very long, digitate, with an irregular distal edge and a slightly recurved apex ; penis cylindrical, 

 very long, curved, ending in a sharp point ; vesica with fine cornuti ; uncus clothed with long 

 fine hair ; coarser hair on the distal halves of the valves. 



I have described and figured the genitalia of many species of Azanus. In all of 

 them the uncus, subunci and tegumen are of the same shape as the corresponding 



Fig. 215. Freyeria minuscula (Aurivillius), $ genitalia. 



