GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 41 



Genus EUTHECTA Bennett 



Euthecta Bennett, ig.54. Entomologist 87 : 170. Type-species : Euthecta coohsoni Bennett, 



n>54. I>v monotypy. 



Eyes, palpi, antennae, legs and wing venation as in Teriomina. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 33) : uncus conical, rather concave at the apex ; no subunci ; no 

 special processes as in Baliochila. l'enis very long, sickle-shaped, the basal part swollen, the 

 external part ending in a sharp point. 



List of Species of Euthecta 

 * Euthecta cooksoni Bennett, 1954, Entomologist 87 : 171. 



Genus BALIOCHILA Stempffer & Bennett 



Baliochila Stempffer & Bennett, 1953. Bull. Br. Mus. not. Hist. (Ent.) 3 : 85. Type-species : 



Liptena aslauga Crimen, 1873, by original designation. 

 Teriomima Kirby (pro parte) ; Aurivillius, 1898 271 ; 1918 ' <- s i Murray, 1935 : 54 '■ 



Swanepoel, 1053 : 187. 



, palpi, antennae, legs and wing venation as in Teriomima. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 34). The ^ genitalia of all the species of Baliochila have been 

 described and figured by Bennett & Stempffer (l953)- xv 'th the exception of B. singularii they 

 present a common character which has justified the erection ol the genus, viz. the presence of a 

 pair of symmetrical processes, of various length, the bases of which are firmly attached to the 

 dorsal face of the anellus internally, the outer margin being attached to the tegumen by a semi- 

 membranous union. In the natural position these processes extend horizontally, on the axis of 

 the abdomen, between the uncus and the penis ; they arc sometimes crowned with spines, 

 sometimes entirely covered with short stiff hair. One cannot regard them as subunci, since 

 they are not articulated to the uncus-tegumen suture ; on the other hand, one cannot homologize 

 them exactly with the asymmetrical processes of Ornipholidotos, which are articulated with the 

 suture between tergite and sternitc. For these reasons they are designated " special processes " 



Fig. 33. Euthecta cooksoni Bennett, $ genitalia of type. 



