. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. 34 Eyes large, smooth ; palpi fairly long, ascending and projecting well beyond the frons, second segment clothed with long, erect hair, third segment short; antennae long, slender, white-banded, club well differentiated, clavate ; thorax moderately stout, abdomen long and reaching beyond anal angle in the male ; q* fore leg with tibia not swollen, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. Wing venation (Text-fig. 239). In the o* of eleaza on the fore wings vein 10 arises from the upper angle of the cell ; in the $ it b
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. 34 Eyes large, smooth ; palpi fairly long, ascending and projecting well beyond the frons, second segment clothed with long, erect hair, third segment short; antennae long, slender, white-banded, club well differentiated, clavate ; thorax moderately stout, abdomen long and reaching beyond anal angle in the male ; q* fore leg with tibia not swollen, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. Wing venation (Text-fig. 239). In the o* of eleaza on the fore wings vein 10 arises from the upper angle of the cell ; in the $ it branches from the common stem of vein 6 and 7 + 8 + 9 ; in isca vein 10 arises from the anterior margin of the cell. On the hind wing vein 5 is nearer to 6 + 7 than to 4 in all species. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 24). Uncus deeply divided, formed of two long symmetrical leaf- like expansions with pointed apices. Subunci absent. Tegumen reduced to a narrow strip. Vinculum narrow with an indistinct saccus. Lower fultura fused to the base of the valves and sheathing the internal part of the penis. Valves oblong, slightly falcate at the apex. Penis small, proximally widely open dorsally, the distal (outer) part strongly recurved. Uncus delicately pubescent, distal half of valves thickly hairy. All the male genitalia of Psenderesia that I have examined bear a definite resem- blance to those of P. eleaza : the uncus is always bifid, though less deeply divided, the subunci are absent, the valves oblong. The penis of P. paradoxa shows a certain resemblance to that of eleaza, but those of isca (Text-fig. 25), ouesso, nigeriana, phaeochiton, osheba, clenchi, rougeoti, bent and rutilo, differ in that the distal portion of the penis is not recurved. The penis of bicolor (Text-fig. 26) is of a very different type, the outer portion very long, cylindrical, bent at an obtuse angle and open dorsally to allow the passage of the vesica, which bears numerous cornuti. List of Species of Pseuderesia
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