. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. i8o Genus CR UDARIA Wallengren Crudaria Wallengren, 1875, Qfvevs K. svenska VetenskAkad. Fork. 32 : 86 ; Aurivillius, 1924 : 431 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : x49- Type-species : Arhopala leroma Wallengren, by monotypy. Phasis Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 343 ; Murray, 1935 : 106. Head rather broad ; eyes glabrous, palpi long, ascending, second segment laterally com- pressed, clothed with long scales and hair, third segment long, slender, acuminate ; antennae slightly more than half the length of the costa, becoming gra
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. i8o Genus CR UDARIA Wallengren Crudaria Wallengren, 1875, Qfvevs K. svenska VetenskAkad. Fork. 32 : 86 ; Aurivillius, 1924 : 431 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : x49- Type-species : Arhopala leroma Wallengren, by monotypy. Phasis Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 343 ; Murray, 1935 : 106. Head rather broad ; eyes glabrous, palpi long, ascending, second segment laterally com- pressed, clothed with long scales and hair, third segment long, slender, acuminate ; antennae slightly more than half the length of the costa, becoming gradually stouter up to the poorly differentiated fusiform club ; thorax rather robust, thickly clothed below with white hair ; o* fore leg with tibia shorter than femur, tarsus rather slender, unsegmented, finely spinose below ; mid and hind legs with tibiae shorter than femora. Wing shape. Fore wing with costa arched at its base then straight, apex angular, outer margin convex between apex and vein 4, then straight ; hind wing oval, outer margin rounded, a short delicate tail at the end of vein ib a small lobe at the anal angle. Wing venation (Text-fig. 313). Fore wing with ti veins ; hind wing cell short. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 160). Uncus composed of two large semicircular lobes separated by the rounded depression on the distal edge of the tegumen ; subunci much reduced, curved, apex blunt, with a short rounded apophysis on the lower margin, tegumen large ; vinculum fairly broad with a rounded saccus ; lower fultura consists of a triangular plate with deeply notched base ; valves oblong with digitate apices, their upper margins connected in the middle by a membrane ; penis elongate, robust, swollen at the base, apex obliquely truncate ; uncus and apices of valves clothed with long, fine hair. The early stages of Crudaria leroma have been described by Gowan Clarke (1958, J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 24 : 127). List of Species of Crudaria Crudaria capensis van Son, 1956, Ann. Trans
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