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parts in ubaldus, but the valves and the penis are rather more complicated in shape 

 than in the type of the genus. The valves, digitate in jesous, apex deeply incised in 

 sitalces, wider than in ubaldus in the other species, have the distal portion broken up 

 into more or less slender processes in isis and natalensis. The penis is not so long 

 and more robust in these other species than in ubaldus, the ventral surface of the 

 external portion is grooved and ends in a slender point, and in the groove there is a 

 more or less massive cuneus, which is bare in sitalces and mirza, bristling with 

 spinules in jesous. Azanus isis, which on account of the pattern of the upperside 



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Fig. 216. Azanus ubaldus (Cramer), <J genitalia. 



Fig. 217. Azanus isis (Drury), <J genitalia. 



