. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 177 Wing shape. Fore wing, costa arched at the base, then straight, apex slightly rounded, outer margin convex ; hind wing oval, apex rounded, outer margin slightly scalloped at the endings of the veins. The shape of the hind wing is not constant in the genus Poecilmitis. Whilst in aethon, dicksoni, and Pyroeis it is approximately the same as in the type-species, there is a short broad tail at vein ib in chrysaor, palmns and felthami which is more or less pronounced also in the thysbe group. Wing venati
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 177 Wing shape. Fore wing, costa arched at the base, then straight, apex slightly rounded, outer margin convex ; hind wing oval, apex rounded, outer margin slightly scalloped at the endings of the veins. The shape of the hind wing is not constant in the genus Poecilmitis. Whilst in aethon, dicksoni, and Pyroeis it is approximately the same as in the type-species, there is a short broad tail at vein ib in chrysaor, palmns and felthami which is more or less pronounced also in the thysbe group. Wing venation (Text-fig. 311). Fore wing with 12 veins ; 6 and 7 from the upper angle of the cell. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 158). Uncus roughly rectangular with broadly rounded angles and a shallow median depression in the distal margin ; subunci long, curved; robust, with a short apophysis on the lower edge of the curve, apex blunt ; tegumen oval ; vinculum rather narrow with a short rounded saccus ; lower fultura small, shield-shaped, notched apically ; valves oblong, with apex digitate, the upper processes connected on their inner surfaces by a thin membrane which surrounds the penis ; penis long ; curving, swollen at its base, apex obliquely truncate ; uncus and distal portion of valves sparsely pilose. In P. thysbe, P. palmns, P. felthami, P. chrysaor and P. aethon, the subunci bear an apophysis as in lycegenes. This is lacking in dicksoni. In aethon and felthami the saccus is rounded and not prominent, but in thysbe, palmus and chrysaor it is quadrangular and very prominent. The early stages of thysbe, palmus, chrysaor and pyroeis have been described by Dickson 1943 (J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 6 : 37 ; 1944, 7 : 97 ; 1945, 8 : 99 ; 1947, 9 : 178, 10 : 128 ; 1948, 11 : 50). List of Species of Poecilmitis Poecilmitis adonis Pennington, 1962, /. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 25 : 277, fig. * Poecilmitis aethon (Trimen), 1887. Poecilmitis aridus Pennington, 1953, J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 16 : 104, fig
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