GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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If as seems possible, it should transpire in the light of further evidence, that 

 muhata and kirbyi become synonyms, the type-species will remain the same. Only 

 its name will be changed. 



In anticipation of a favourable decision on my application, I am proceeding on 

 the basis that the type-species of Ornipholidotos is 0. kirbyi. 



Head small ; eyes large and naked ; palpi very small and very short, divergent clothed with 

 scales below ; antennae similar to those of Pentila : thorax short and slender ; abdomen long, 

 swollen in its apical portion, especially in the $. Legs similar to those of Pentila. 



Wing shape : fore wing not so long as in Pentila : in all the species except 0. paradoxa ri. H. 

 Druce, all four wings are translucent white with costal margin and the apex of the fore wings 

 and the hind margin of all four wings more or less broadly blackish. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 235). Cell much elongated, though on the whole slightly shorter 

 than that of Pentila : discocellular shorter than in Pentila. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 12, kirbyi). (See also Hethunc Baker, Trans, ent. Soc. Land. 1914: 

 lv.„ fig io, and Stempffcr, 1047. ««■ Zool. Bot. afr. 30 : 167, fig. 2). Uncus composed of two 

 long robust arms ; tegumen hood-shaped ; articulated on the vinculum, on the tergite-stern.te 

 suture there are two large asvmmetrical processes, which are widened and fused distally and are 

 provided with a strong hook ; because of their point of attachment these processes cannot be 

 regarded as subunci ; these peculiar processes are found, though modified in shape, in all the 

 other species of Ornipholidotos that I have studied ; vinculum broad ; there are no distinct 

 articulated valves but only simple expansions of the vinculum which have a spatulate apex^ . 

 penis elongate its distal end bent back towards the dorsum, slightly constricted just before the 



Fig. 13. Ornipholidotos ntebi 



(Bethune Baker), <$ genitalia. 



Fig. 14. Ornipholidotos peucetia 

 (Hewitson), $ genitalia. 



