. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 251 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 the


. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 251 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 Aj). Fig. 216. Azanus ubaldus (Cramer), <J Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)


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