GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAEN IDAE 



37 



Genus CITRINOPHILA Kirby 



Citrinophila Kirby, 1887, Ann. Mag. not. Hist. (5) 19 : 367 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 268 ; 1918 : 325. 

 Type-species : Citrinophila marginalis Kirby, by original designation. 



Eyes naked : palpi fairly long, second segment laterally compressed, third segment slender, 

 acuminate ; antennae black and white annulated, club sharply distinct, elongate, flattened ; 

 legs black and white annulated, fore tarsi of $ unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 240). Differs from Pseuderesia in that the discoidal on the hind wing 

 is straight between the points of origin of veins 4 and 5. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 27). Uncus composed of two narrow lateral bands on the posterior 

 margin of the tegumen each ending in a small sharply pointed process and separated by a deep 

 concavity ; no subunci ; tegumen very large, subtriangular ; vinculum broad, with a small 



Fig. 28. Citrinophila unipitnctata Bethune Baker, J genitalia. 



h^ 



Fig. 29. Citrinophila tenera (Kirby), 6* genitalia. 



