. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 257 club flattened, well differentiated ; thorax clothed below with long white silky hair ; legs : o" fore leg, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented. Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, costa evenly convex, apex rounded, outer margin convex, hind wing oval, no tail, anal angle obtuse. Wing venation (Text-fig. 344) (see alsoChapman, 1910, Trans, cut. Soc. Lond. 43, pi., 54, fig. 14) : fore wing with 11 veins, 11 fused with 12 for part of its length. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 222) (see a
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 257 club flattened, well differentiated ; thorax clothed below with long white silky hair ; legs : o" fore leg, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented. Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, costa evenly convex, apex rounded, outer margin convex, hind wing oval, no tail, anal angle obtuse. Wing venation (Text-fig. 344) (see alsoChapman, 1910, Trans, cut. Soc. Lond. 43, pi., 54, fig. 14) : fore wing with 11 veins, 11 fused with 12 for part of its length. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 222) (see also Chapman, iyio, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 43, pi. 55, fig. 20 and pi. 56, fig. 24). Uncus composed of two small lobes fused to the tegumen on either side of the median depression in its posterior edge, subunci long, slender, curved, tapering gradually to the apex which is not hooked ; tegumen large, the median band strongly sclerotized on its anterior and posterior edges ; vinculum broad ; lower fultura formed of two robust arms fused to the base of the valves ; valves fused together for the first'quarter of their length, oblong, apices strongly serrate and truncate at right angles to the axis of the valves ; penis shaped like an elongated flask ending in a long fine spine ; vesica with numerous cornuti ; uncus clothed with fine hair ; thick still hair on the lower borders of the valves, especially near their bases, the distal portions more sparsely clothed with shorter weaker hair. The male genitalia of knysna (Text-fig. 223) (see also Chapman, 1910, pi. 56, figs 22, 23) differ from those of karsandra solely by the shape of the valves, which are slightly wider and whose serrated apex is obliquely truncate. Steven Corbet {in litt.) considered karsandra and knysna as a collective species, karsandra inhabiting the eastern region ( Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, E. Algeria and Sudan), knysna the western and southern regions (Spain, Canary Islands, Morocco, W. Algeria, S. Arabia, Su
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