GENERA "i AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 21 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 234). Only .litter, torn that of Pentila in a single detail, namely vein 



1 1 arises somewhat nearer to the base of the wing. 

 Male genitalia (Text-fig. id Quite similar to those of Pentila. 



I do not see any important character on which to separate Liptenara from Pentila. 

 The species are easy to recognize on account of the large white subapical mark, but 

 in my opinion they scarcely merit generic status. 



List of Species or Liptenara 



*Liptcnara batesi Bcthune Baker, £915, Ann. Mag. not. Hist. (8) 16 : 187. Fig. 



genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 1961 : 1205. 

 *Liptenara hiendlmayri (Dewitz), 1886. Fig. genitalia, Stempffer & Bennett, 



1961 : 1208. 

 *Liptenara schoutedeni (Hawker Smith), 1926, Revue zool. ajr. 14 : 238. tig. 



genitalia, Stempffer cc Bennett, 1961 : 1207. 



Genus ORNIPHOUDOTOS Bethune Baker 



Ornipholidotos Bethune Baker, 191 |. Trans, ent. Soc. Land. 1914 ; 319. 1 vpe-species : Pentila 



kirbvi Aurivillius 1895. 

 Pentila Westwood (partim) ; Aurivillias [898 : 263 ; 1014 : 310. 



In the original description of this genus, Bethune Baker specified Pentila muhata 

 Dewitz, 1886, as its type-species, and figured (I.e. pi. 58, fig- 1°) the male genitalia of 

 what he took to be this species. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Hannemann of the Berlin Museum, I obtained on loan 

 the two specimens which served Dewitz as the " types " of his original description. 



Fig. t r. Liptenara batesi Bethune Baker, q» genitalia. 



